DAMIEN faced a dead end. He already went to all the slave houses available in the Northern Empire. And Grace was nowhere to be found. He also had no clues of Grace's exact location except it was in a slave house. And he had no traces left to help in his finding.
The first snow in the year turned into a blizzard. It was hard to continue the search.
Damien looked at his knights. They were all exhausted because they just returned from the horror of war. Some were still traumatized. The bomb explosion and men's cries still ringing and screaming in their heads from time to time.
They could not continue this anymore. Thus, Damien blamed himself. A lot.
Was it too late to say sorry? To say that he regretted it going to the stupid war. And he wished he had not gone either at the beginning. What does it mean to win the war if Grace is not here with him to celebrate it?
