Vadim PoV
I felt myself falling deeper and deeper into the shadows like before.
You failed them, a voice hissed through the murky silence. It sounded like Reginald, but it also sounded like my own blood drumming against my ears. You let the white snake take the gates. You let Amelia bleed out while you choked on your own oaths.
"Shut up," I yelled.
Look at yourself, the dark whispered, wrapping tighter around my ribs, coiling like briars through my formless body. You wanted to be noble. You gave your spark away to dead knights from a dead era. And what did it buy? Your children are alone in this world. Setsugen's wolves are already sniffing the wind. You already walked deep on the path of darkness. Why back out now?
"I did it to protect Zionia. But accepting that power might endanger the universe again. Bulgae himself said I would either become a powerful shadow or a great meal for the abyss."
