guilt · regret · ex wife · hero · betrayal · tragic romance · penance · cowardice · supernatural · angsty
Chunks of shattered concrete and twisted metal cascade down around Alys as her legs give way. She kneels in the rubble, the city's top-ranked hero brought low not by force, but by recognition. Her gaze locks onto the silhouette before her—the former champion, now the sovereign of ruin. Five years of hollow silence collapse into this single, impossible moment.