An end to fate (3)

"NO! LARIEL, NOOOO!" Aleks screamed in abject despair.

It was a piercing sound that stabbed deeply into one's heart. Aleks had never made such a sound, not in any other lives he lived, nor in his original lifetime. Even when his world fell apart, and even when he killed the friend he loved as a brother, that sound of despair never left his lips.

Aleks rushed to rise from the ground, he struggled and fell, only to pick himself up again. He was still slightly stunned and he attempted to shrug it off. He pushed past the pain and his heart beat so fiercely that it wished to burst from his chest. He was a far cry from the man he had been not too long prior. This was a desperate man who had broken down and was on the edge of a cliff, moments from jumping.