"Me? Well... It would be a lie if I told you everything's been well. If anything, life's been tossing shit at me for a while now," Rael replied plainly.
"It feels like the more powerful you become, the more enemies you gain. I never really asked for any of this. All I wanted from the very start was just to live peacefully with my wife, or wives, in Celestara."
Had that bitch Solenne not come along, that would still be his life.
A warm life.
A life full of nothing but happiness.
Now that life was long gone, and he doubted he would ever gain back what he lost.
He could already tell that much just from the brief couple of exchanges with someone whose life he practically gave a purpose to.
"I see... I guess we both went through a lot, then," Evelyn said.
She reached for one of the bottles on the table, and to Rael's genuine surprise, it was the strongest bottle of the bunch, containing nearly 100% alcohol.
