[KOSTA]
Ten years.
That was how long it had been;
Since Igor had gone back home to his guardian.
Before he even thought about going to see her.
And now that he was walking the road back home, he wasn't even doing it because he had missed her.
He was doing it because she had the answers that he desperately needed. Answers that could change the trajectory of his life in so many ways, possibly forever too. This was that time when he wasn't sure if he would get what he was going to seek.
Yet at the same time, he had to set aside his ego because, on the other side, he would be the only one who lost. And that was the one thing that he refused to do. Not after the way that he had lost Tamiko.
Yilena had promised him that things would be alright when he stepped away, and now what was happening and there wasn't even so much as a trace of the onerous he had sacrificed everything for.
