Vespera's eyes narrowed into slits.
"So, yeah. This wonderful woman…" Kaiden continued, and his arms tightened around her shoulders, "is the one who brought me into this world."
The words left his mouth, and the room instantly brightened.
The shadows evaporated as if they never existed.
Emilia saw it happen.
One frame they were there, pooling across the floor of the broadcast space, climbing the walls, pressing against the edges of the frame, and the next they were gone.
Not retreating or bleeding back into the corners. Gone, as if someone had flipped a switch inside the Shadow Monarch and the darkness had simply stopped existing.
