Chapter 375 – I am sorry too
Asael smiled faintly, watching Valentine sleeping peacefully, pressing against her chest the cushion instead of putting her head on it.
Valentine never liked it. She preferred to put her head flat on the bed, always.
Asael wondered where she got that habit from, but he knew well.
Rose was the same.
The Empire of the Damned was shrouded by the shadows of the night. Above, what looked less like a moon and more like a cracked rock put together bathed the empire in a dying luster.
It was a depressing light. One that smelled of the death of a moon. Yet the inhabitants of the damned were used to this feeling. On the contrary, anything else than this would feel alien to them.
And that, even to the sleeping Valentine.
Asael, sitting beside her bed, felt somehow bad to let his daughter grow in such an empire. But there was nothing he could do.
He tended his hand, intending to caress the beautiful red hair of his daughter, only to stop midway.
