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“There are some ould say I should bow to you, heir of Silenius,” he says
“Most who’d say that are dead,” I reply “Besides, I auest in your home”
“Very true” He motions for me to follow him and alk a few paces away fro debris into the reflective goggles I wear The kryll warh the membrane into my mouth Roht you here”
“They’re not the only ones”
He examines me with his lone eye “You look very much like your mother”
“You knew her?”
“Not well” He sees e of a distant dune watching us
“Why did you ask me to come here, my lord?”
“There is still a chance to stop this war, Lysander Maybe not to stop it froh for that Even my death will not stop it But there is a chance to stop it fro did not coo, Silenius au Lune, your blood, and Akari au Raa, ether One the scepter, one the sword They gave birth to the Pax Solaris They freed us from Earth’s dominion You face a choice that will touch lives far beyond your sight Run as you have these last years, or becoreat men” He leans forward, his voice husky and full of emotion That lone eye seems suspended in his face, celestial and untethered from its mortal body He sets his hand on hter Can you now save the worlds?”
He does not wait for a response, which I aive He walks back to his family to say farewell to his wife I’ht of his question I already took the first step in ignoring Cassius’s dying wish The second with the betrayal of Gaia Do I have the strength to take the rest? Can I bear the burden of my blood?
I watch Roreat man looks at Dido with so much love I know I can’t fathom it I have never known love like theirs Seraphina sits alone on the dune and I wonder how Roo on Venus If he loved her so much, how could he be so brave as to choose to say farewell? Is it really true, pure honor? After having been ripped from my family, I’m at a loss, unable to understand how amore than love
It awakens so deep inside me A desire to be as noble as he is now A need to honor his h I barely knew the man
“These ten years I’ve been looking for the man I married,” Dido says to her husband I strain to hear the Moon Lord who burned a city for a girl of the pearl shore Romulus the Bold Dido of Numidae What a pair they were What an end they had”
“No,” he whispers “This is not the end I loved you before I ever met you I will love you until the sun dies And when it does, I will love you in the darkness Goodbye, wife”
Stepping close, he reainst the toxic air, gently unfastens Dido’s to pull her into one last kiss Stea at one another Then Roround to step backward down the dune