The breath left his body, and I heard him whisper before he perished, "Your eyes…"
Then nothing. Orath's soul was gone.
I felt the weight in my arms had changed. What had been a broken, breathing thing, clinging to the last threads of life, became simply meat. Rex's body went slack. His head lolled back. His eyes, still open, still staring at something only he could see, began to film over.
This was a better death than he deserved.
I stopped walking for a moment and looked at the stairs stretched ahead of me, the last words of Orath still ringing in my head. There were so many revelations dropped at once that I had to take a moment to gather everything in my head and make sense of it all.
The Caelith brought the light of the stars to the earth, and he claimed them all, the Sovereign of the Stars.
Was that the name of my enemy? The one who would tear an entire continent apart just for a chance to become something more than a Sovereign?
