Chapter 184

"Have you ever become the shadow of a person you have never had?"

 

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Michavel's Residential Cottage,

The City of Descandville,

The Kingdom of Hyll-Decanta,

Darkling Night,

Second Moun-night of the Second month,

Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon Vericus IV

 

Aldric felt safe in Nathan's arms. His head was blazing hot with a feverish headache after the great deal of shedding tears. But his heart was relieved of the fright of fending for his own life, now that he was not the solitary soul in the world who was levied with the burden of protecting his breath.

"Do you want to return to slumber?" he heard Jehu ask him.

The thoughts of hearing his family's screams ringing in his ears again blared in his head and at that very notion, he shuddered visibly. Aldric shook his head 'no' and held the man's shirt tight.