He... was alone. Again.
Aether sighed, walking through the night. He had almost forgotten how it felt to truly have no one around him. This hollow feeling, hearing only your footsteps, reminded him of his past. When Avrie and Elpis died, and he had to go to the Second Ring and fight alone, how similar was his situation right now?
Well, pretty different. Both Lucien and Kade were still alive, but not with him anymore; they had decided not to follow him.
While the reason was different, the outcome was the same.
He stopped walking for a second... at that moment, there was silence, for a long time, it was silence. If he had stopped like this before, he would have been questioned on why they were stopping all of a sudden.
But now, there was no one to ask.
