"Are you happy now? Killing yourself on purpose."
The bomb Carl drops leaves everyone speechless.
"Lord Valentine, what is Carl talking about?" I ask, my voice quivering. It's too much to take in. I was killed as a sacrifice for a dark curse. The fact that Lord Valentine no longer has a body to return to in his own world. The fact that he will stay here with me forever. And now this?
"Don't listen to Carl. He is just complaining because I gained immortality without going through the things he had to go through," Lord Valentine says teasingly.
"Hey, Vale's princess, do you know why his mother gave up so easily in the end?"
Come to think of it his mother did give up surprisingly easily. She was insistent to bring Lord Valentine home, but in the end she just... gave up. Like she admitted defeat.
I eye the two men in front of me suspiciously. Suddenly I'm afraid to hear the truth.
"In order to send your soul to a different universe..."
