Eric feels his blood run cold as soon as he catches sight of Seraphine from a distance.
He went frozen still when she looked back at him without any emotion. Panic-stricken, he reaches out to the darkness - to her in vain. He keeps calling for her in desperation, but he is not getting any answer. It's almost as if she's not really there despite how realistic all of these seem.
This could not happen.
Everything he did was so that this wouldn't happen. He couldn't lose her like this. Not again.
"Did you think you would live happily ever after?"
A distant voice echoed.
Eric had not even finished taking those words in when he heard the sound of a trigger being pulled. Not even a second later, a blare of gunshot resounded in his ears, striking shock and terror into him. He went numb when he saw how it stained Seraphine in bloody crimson.
She didn't scream. She's quiet.
