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Chapter Eighty-Five
The burning inside my head was enough to eventually snap me out of the vision and I fell to the ground, wincing until the pain subsided.
What I’d just seen was… indescribable.
And not just seen, but felt. I’d felt what they had; what both Thea and Selene had gone through. Their pain, loss, sacrifices… all of it.
It was a universe spanning far beyond my limited knowledge, a timeline as old as time itself.
And it had now been burned into my brain.
Selene had been right. Only describing this story wouldn’t have been enough. What I’d just experienced gave me a higher understanding than just simply being told.
…But that didn’t mean I accepted what this meant for me. For all of us. Something she was probably expecting me to be lenient on given her status.
“…We don’t mean anything,” I whispered to myself, still somewhat in a daze. “We’re just… fodder. Pawns. Foot soldiers… for you.”
I looked back up sharply a
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