It wasn't that long… was it?
After Penelope left him, Aether's life had suddenly become unbearable.
Life had pushed him down countless times, forcing him to endure things he never thought he could survive. But whenever he reached the point where he could no longer see a reason to keep moving, there had always been one person waiting for him.
Penelope!
She had become the light he looked toward whenever everything around him turned dark.
She had been the fundamental reason for his survival!!
As long as there had been one person standing beside him, waiting somewhere at the end of his life, he had been willing to crawl through anything to reach her.
She would still be there.
Right?
But even that had been crushed because of his incompetence.
Everything he had built for them seemed to crumble before his eyes. Every brick he had carefully placed, every sacrifice he had made, every future he had quietly imagined for the two of them had collapsed one piece at a time.
