Kael stood at the boundary, watching a sunrise he could not feel.
The world was safer.
Not safe, but living.
That was enough.
For now.
He did not know how long he would endure.
He did not know who would follow him.
But he would stand.
Not as a god.
Not as a demon.
But as a man who chose again and again to remain human in a universe that demanded he stop.