Epilogue 3: Loves Last Champion

Epilogue 3: Loves Last Champion

Epilogue 3: Loves Last Champion

Emperor Kadra

Vengeance burned in his heart, where love used to be. Rage, quiet, still, cold rage settled there now that his enemy was dead. Kadra sat and meditated on this truth, a truth satisfied now. A truth that revealed the horror, deceit, and betrayal of the Emperor.

Vengeance.

Cold, calculating, vengeance. And it was his. Satisfaction, what little he allowed himself to feel, swept through him as he held the marble in his hand. It was his connection to his patron. To his guide into the heavens.

He cultivated this truth. This aspect of the Dao inside himself. And energy flowed freely into him.

Then, almost as if someone had blown out a candle, it was gone and panic nearly gripped him.

No, not gone. Only weaker. Slower. As if he were cultivating alone now, rather than next to his master who had been guiding him as he cycled.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via Ñøv€l-B!n.

What in the . . .

Then as quickly as she was there, she was gone. And the burden on his soul lingered, but eased.

Kadra sat up, tears staining his face as he wiped the moisture away. Then in his open palm, he found the glass bead. But instead of an orange angry flame at its center, a red almost pink one flickered there. Vulnerable, defiant in the face of his grief.

And Kadra made a decision.

He would be Love's champion. One last time.

THE END

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