He rose with Zeraphyra and Vireth's weight behind him, with Kaelira's two weeks behind him, with the specific grief of someone who had been holding too many losses for too long and had just been given one more.
The fire that erupted from him was not Apollo's fire magic. The life-affinity system had reached its absolute maximum, producing an output that was the exact opposite of its usual function.
Instead of healing or reversing entropy, it generated a specific result from a system that was self-destructing to create something it was never intended to produce.
Apollo gazed at Rex with eyes that suggested he had lost touch with the part of himself capable of making moral decisions.
"EVERYTHING..." Apollo said, and the word was almost lost in the deep, constant sound of something basic working at its ceiling. "I'M GOING TO UNDO EVERY CHOICE YOU'VE EVER MADE...!"
"STARTING WITH THE CHOICE TO COME HERE TONIGHT, AND THAT INCLUDES KAELIRA, ZERAPHYRA, VIRETH, AND AETHELGAAAARDDDDD!!!"
