"But those are just the laws of the universe, aren't they?"
Phei's voice had shifted — lighter now, almost philosophical, calm in the way a guillotine is calm right before its blade kisses the neck off and ends everything.
"They don't concern us at all, do they? Because hope or not..."
He tilted his head, those ancient void-black eyes swallowing every last scrap of light in the room until only an endless, freezing abyss stared back.
"It won't change your fate."
The pause that followed was suffocating. Heavy. The kind of silence that crawls into your lungs and squeezes until your ribs scream and your soul starts to rot.
"So let me tell you something."
Snap.
The sound cracked through the air like the breaking of a condemned man's neck.
