Alex placed the young girl into the dark, cold expanse of a space ring, laying her to rest as gently as the motion allowed, securing what remained of her to be buried later in a nameless grave, one among the countless others already resting within the largest graveyard the Malefis Domain had ever needed to build.
Leaving her behind on the Human Continent, or on any continent still standing, would have amounted to nothing more than leaving fresh food out for the Devourer horde.
The graveyard itself also served the purpose of reminding Alex of every death this war had claimed so far, and it reminded him, in the same breath, of exactly why the war needed to end.
It also reminded him, more quietly and more insistently than he liked, that he might already be holding the key to stopping it entirely.
Empress Siles hadn't been lying about The End.
The blade took the souls of the lives it claimed, dragging them down into the abyssal prison hidden somewhere within it.
No...Not quite.
