It was almost as if time stopped.
Lilly and Bert, who were rushing to help Roan, looked like a pair of statues with their hands stretched toward him. The leaves that were falling from the trees, the dust that was flying in the air, and the wings of the tiny insects that scattered sparsely—they were all frozen.
In this world, only Riley and Aerith moved. Even Roan, who had been struggling to get away from Riley's grip, ceased to wriggle.
Riley and Aerith were the only ones that could move, and yet neither of them refused to. Riley just waited; waiting for Aerith to make a choice—they both had the eternity to do so.
Will she once again shed her wings and become a hero?
But alas, it would seem eternity wasn't needed as Aerith already made her choice. Her eyes, just closing as she turned around; stepping away from the window, leaving only her sighs to travel through the eternity they created.
