Close call

'Do I have something-?'

The empress was dying and I didn't really have much of anything…. 

Wait- 

I had some stones-

Stones I forgot all about-

And stones I should have used in the battlefield but didn't have the time to- nor the means to.

Even now- I didn't know if I could use it or not-

Why?

One-

They required me to use them- and had a hefty warning that I needed a lot of HP and MP. 

Two- they needed someone to actually be dead-

And three-

I had no way of knowing if it'd work on a demigod.

So-

I did pull out a stone but-

But the empress- "Aileen-" She managed- staring at the girl behind me- who I didn't notice- "I'm sorry."

Was her name Aileen- was it Servia?

And why was the empress sorry?

What the hell?

It didn't matter right now but-

Breath-

Audible breaths-

Followed by-

Nothing-