[Reread the second half of chapter {24-saddening} to fully understand this.]
The atmosphere was gloomy, the skies dark as rain poured onto the eery forest that lay below it.
With long ashen hair and crimson eyes, Aegon, the Heir of the vagontraz, wiped the mix of sweat, rain and blood off his forehead as he finished his mother's burial.
It wasn't as he'd have liked but for now, it'd have to do. He couldn't do more than he had. Even just recovering her body was a miracle in itself.
'I'll avenge you. I swear it. I swear it upon all that is holy.' He swore with gritted teeth as his body tensed and his gaze reddened.
Exhaling, he calmed down as he began to head back to his destroyed house.
What was once a gigantic estate of multiple building complexes had turned into a land of ruin and desolation as nothing was left intact.
