"So yeah… that's pretty much it," Razeal concluded with a small, almost indifferent nod, as if he had just summarized something inconvenient rather than something utterly catastrophic, his tone lacking any drama despite the magnitude of what he had just said, and that calmness alone made everything feel heavier, more real.
"What…?" Maria blinked, her brows pulling together as she tried to process his words, her mind almost instinctively rejecting them before they could fully settle, "Gods? Heavens?" She shook her head slowly, confusion and disbelief mixing together as she looked at him..
"What are you even saying?" Her voice carried a strained edge now, as if her thoughts were scrambling to find something logical to hold onto, because this this wasn't something she wanted to understand, not something she could easily accept, not when it sounded this… impossible.
