Alive

Their story probably should have really ended there, and ended like this.

Ivy finding in Kreiz a new love, a new hope and a new life while never recovering from the loss of Zion, while Zion died, sacrificing himself for what mattered to him, and was finally free of his heavy burden.

Yes, it really would have ended there.

But it didn't.

While Jork thought he was forgotten by all, locked up for almost a century in the house where he knew the greatest happiness that was, a being had by prudence and reason, kept him under observation.

A being reigning over an entire kingdom who in the secret of his heart had also once known Zion, and had loved him as few people in the magical, almost immortal world had ever been able to love.