Chapter 225 (1/2)

Chapter 225

Chapter 225: Shared Affliction

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SYLVIE

I should’ve stopped hi the moment he reached back out to me The panic that leaked onto hi it

Theht that no one—ut clenched and I felt tears threaten to take over Seeing the horrified expression ofin wide-eyed denial at what he was seeing, I wanted to disappear

I wanted to be anywhere but here I would’ve rather faced another horde of derangedbond staring hopelessly at his own father’s bloody corpse

Arthur staggered forward He pushed everyone aside and knelt over his father’s un body, and for a moment, it seemed like all was silent

Beasts and soldiers alike seemed to have sensed the heavy veil that descended onto the entire area, but none could feel my bond’s state of turmoil as much as I could

It hurt

It was excruciating… it was unbearable

I didn’t know my heart could hurt this round, unable to endure the self-destructive state of his emotions

Tears streamed down my cheeks and blurred my vision I couldn’t breathe as the torrent of ee that blazed like a forest fire, grief that flooded and drowned everything in its path, a gnawing guilt that treret that destroyed and knocked aside years and years of hard work and development like a hurricane

I could feel these e havoc insideaway at Arthur’s very sanity

Yet, on the surface, Arthur was as silent and still as a statue

I crawled towards hi for air in between my sobs as my heart wrenched in my chest It was only then, when I embraced his back—his broad, lonely back—that the thin wall that he had built around hiuttural, prilass, my bond broke down in tears

The very earth seemed to lament for my bond as his sobs and wails filled the air The aed at tier, while at ti with his despair as Arthurbody

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I continued to cling to rip and twistmore to help, but I couldn’t The lump in my throat blocked any words of consolation I could possibly say, so I did what no one else could do; I eh the connection I shared with eneral, a white core ht now

The world continued to rieving and loss The battle that had gone on for two nights had come to an end

We had won, but not unscathed The Wall loo, pleased with its own health despite the sacrifices that had been er that made my insides boil like this…it was my own

Time trickled on until the sun had set It was only then, that Arthur rose to his feet

Whether his emotions had been expended or locked away, I didn’t know, but his state of mind mirrored the frozen tomb that he conjured and encased his father’s body in

Nearby stood Durden, dejected He had re any signs of pain or discoes hurriedly applied over his face and residual limb

“Durden Please take my father’s body to my mother and sister” My bond’s voice was icy and hollow He rose to his feet and walked towards the Wall like a reaper of death out on his hunt

CAPTAIN ALBANTH KELRIS

“Following through with inal plan has led us to victory with es,” Senior Captain Trodius boasted, a rare so unnoticed, Captain Albanth, Captain Jes the applause of the other unit leaders present in the large lanced down at the picture in es It was a picture I had found in the chestplate of one ofhi up, I saw the senior captain with his brow raised Beside him were soldiers and nobles that had invested in the Wall, all sharing the saies,” I respond quickly, shoving the picture inthe co here after cre several dozens of hs with, it felt wrong to accept any form of praise

“While a proper celebration is in order, we are at war and there is ood work I will have soift to the fallen soldiers’ immediate families”

“As expected of the head of the Flamesworth House Your leadershi+p is i to the senior captain’s left beaht decision to invest in this fortress”

Meanwhile, Jes up on Senior Captain Trodius’ use of the phrase, ‘clean up’ Surely he wasn’t referring to creht?

After the other soldiers had trickled off, Jesmiya and I turned to leave when the senior captain called my name

“Captain Albanth, I’ll need afor Jesmiya to leave

After all but the senior captain and three nobles—based on their gaudy and spotless attire—were left, Trodius gestured toward an e on ReadReadNovelFullonlineco on the foldable wooden chair, one of the nobles raised an eic