Sage Advice

Gideon and Deborah sat at the opposite end of the temple from where Nasiah and Eden were.

They sat alone, sighing together as if they were a couple of veterens while they both had a small bottle of wine, each beside them.

"…Is that really it?" Deborah looked to Gideon, a look of, both sadness and a kind of desperation in her eyes.

"Apparently so… you seem disappointed. Did you want them all to suffer more?" Gideon asked while raising his eyebrows in wonder.

"No… well… kind of… probably, but it's quite confusing to be putting it into words."

She poured more wine into a small cup before she downed it in one go.

"What happened to them was awful. The Jinn literally became human… their worst fears have been realize,d and now they have no way back unless to crawl to the Empire and beg for forgiveness."

A small laugh echoed through her lips. "Honestly… it was a fate worse than death. That is the ideal torture for them… just not for me."