All fell still and silent to Lirian as he left Edith's arms and landed on the ground.
He felt the blindfold slip of his face as he hit the ground, turning his head in Edith's direction, but the world in his eyes was filled with only white.
He couldn't see anything but he knew what happened, he staggered up with a bewildered look on his face as if he couldn't quite register what had happened.
The world fell so silent as if time had frozen everything in place, but Lirian was well aware that the time was flowing onwards, he just didn't want to except it.
It was a far too cruel reality, because he knew that had Edith just held on to him when that dagger struck the geneses world would have opened up under the guidance of the system, yet she sacrificed herself in an attempt to buy him more time.
'Oh, that's right, how could I have forgotten that reality has never been fair to begin with,' a voice echoed in Lirian's head, it was his own.
