Silence stretched once again between the two men after Klaus had told Anthony about Vega's impending Bloodline Awakening. Two men stood there, men who were anything but ordinary, men who were far too great for this universe itself, men whom destiny and fate could neither bind nor bend.
They were two humans who had climbed to the very Pinnacle of the galaxy, standing where only legends dared to exist. And yet… despite their greatness, despite their transcendence above common mortals, they both bore an invisible but crushing weight upon their hearts.
One bore it for his beloved daughter.
The other bore it for his cherished lover.
"It seems I have burdened you with my troubles. Sometimes, I forget that you are just nineteen years of age, barely a man, the same age as my daughter," Klaus finally spoke, his voice slicing through the heavy silence that had settled earlier.
