Chapter 155 – A Story
Cassius slowly began his story.
He spoke about how Noah found himself inside that dreadful place, and how he came to meet Katherine who took him under her wing.
He spoke about how their relationship grew into something close, with Katherine protecting him in a way that said more about her own wound than anything she could have expressed directly.
There, Cassius was stopped abruptly by Katherine, who asked a question that had been burning inside her since the beginning.
"How?" She asked, looking deeply at Cassius. "How did her brother die?"
There was something beneath the question that went beyond simple curiosity. It was as though Katherine — Cassius noticed, watching her trembling pupils — was searching for a connection to the Katherine of Earth. A shared thread that would prove to her she was not the only one dragging this particular kind of pain through her life.
