The One Who Waits

Seraphina screamed as Kaelith's body began to fade—bit by bit, like stardust slipping between her fingers. His weight was still in her arms, but it lessened with every heartbeat.

"No," she whispered, clutching tighter. "Stay with me. You said you remembered—"

"I do."

His voice was raw, barely audible.

"And because I remember… I have to go."

She shook her head violently, tears cutting down her ash-streaked face.

"You're not leaving me again. I didn't come this far to lose you now!"

Kaelith smiled—soft and pained.

"You never lost me. You saved me. But I broke the balance. I wasn't supposed to remember."

Behind them, the Soul Abyss rumbled. Crimson cracks split the sky, revealing something behind it—

A throne.

Empty. Watching. Waiting.

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Scene Break – The True Price

"You were never the villain," Kaelith said, his voice growing fainter. "They lied to you, Sera. Twisted everything. The prophecy… the war… me. All of it was orchestrated."

"By who?" she demanded.

Kaelith looked up, eyes glowing.

> "The One Who Waits."

A silence fell. The kind that echoed louder than sound.

Seraphina froze.

She had heard that name before—in the forbidden libraries of the academy. A god stripped of title, a king buried in time. The original author of fate.

"You mean…?"

"Yes," Kaelith murmured. "The game we thought we were playing—it was his."

The ground beneath them trembled violently.

"And now that I remember, he's coming."

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Scene Break – Light Against the Void

Kaelith lifted his hand, pressing something cold and metal into her palm. It was a ring—wrought of bone and gold, with a gem in the shape of a teardrop.

"The last piece of the Heart," he said. "With it, you can choose your ending."

"I choose you," she said instantly.

Kaelith smiled again. But it wasn't relief. It was sorrow.

"I hope you get that chance."

And then—he vanished.

No sound. No final word. Just… gone.

The sky cracked wide open.

A voice—ancient and endless—echoed through the realm.

> "Ah. So she defied me again."

Seraphina turned.

And standing at the edge of the broken sky was a figure cloaked in darkness and gold, taller than anything mortal, crowned in shifting light.

Eyes like galaxies locked onto her.

> "Let's rewrite your fate, little liar."