Atheline could not stop thinking about the prison. It lingered in his mind long after their conversation ended.
Not the prison he had seen in reality but the one from the dream in the novel. The underground cell where the original had spent maybe months or years forgotten beneath the palace. He wasn't really sure.
The image refused to leave. Elydrah sitting there locked by chains. Although Atheline had killed the man himself it didn't mean the prison image would leave his mind.
Atheline knew it wasn't real or rather, it had never happened in this timeline.
Yes, the prison and the cell existed. But the events he had witnessed belonged to a story that no longer existed.
Yet somehow that made it worse, because the place was still there. Somewhere beneath the palace. The exact location where Lilith had once been destined to imprison her husband.
The thought bothered him far more than it should have. It felt like a stain in his mind that only had one way to clear it up.
