It was probably Amina who was the most affected.
She stood frozen, her heart pounding in her chest as Samiel's words echoed in her mind.
Amael.
He was Amael...?
The one who had stood before her as Samiel, the one she had loved, who had fought beside her, who had died before her eyes—and yet, here he was, the Amael she had been searching for all these years.
Her breath caught in her throat, the realization crashing down on her like a wave. The 'him' she had fallen for, the one she had been searching for after her rebirth… it was Samiel all along.
Her lips parted as if to speak, but no words came out.
It was true.
The person she had loved, the one she had spent lifetimes waiting for, had been standing before her, hidden behind a name and a life she thought she had long since left behind.
Her chest tightened, a flood of memories pulling her back to a time before the academy's fall.
