25 “Abyss”
Eleanora’s pov ~
Everything was cold and dark around ... and weirdly familiar. With a startling realisation, I realised I was still in the Abyss again.
So the past few days was really my mory?
Where is the goddess?
She told that it was my third life, not a dream.
Then why am i still here?
Am hearing sounds, but i can’t tell what it is about or who it is. I had so many questions going through my mind.
I knew from previous experience that there was no escaping the Abyss, not until it was ready to release .
I would need to wait in the empty, the darkness, the nothing... alone.
.....
Then, a light suddenly surrounded and I sohow found myself at the trial grounds, staring up at the noble council who would decide my fate.
It was just like before but there were small changes.
Cathain was facing the elder head nobles, his back to as he addressed them.
Jena had wrapped herself around him like the snake she was, smiling at with her true face.
Her true face was an destroyed face of an angel, which now looks like a demon, more precisely like a zombie.
The sky was dark and the moon was bloody red.
It offset the scene before as the light had cast itself down.
Suddenly Cathain spoke, bringing my attention back to him.
“You have been found guilty of the charges against you. The murder of the empire’s heir, in addition to the harm caused to queen Jennifer, carry the harshest sentence,”
Cathain started.
He turned around and Jena finally stepped back, her smile never faltering as she fed on the anticipating of waiting to watch die.
Her hunger was insatiable as she looked as if she was holding herself back from killing herself.
“Therefore, with the power held within , I, Cathain Valentino, Emperor of the Valentino empire, sentence you, Eleanora Dalton, forr empress of the Valentino empire, to death.”
I looked up to et his eyes as he carried the broadsword in his hand as if it was entirely natural for him, as if he’d held it many tis before.
I looked into his red eyes and saw the sa cold look I was so familiar. A look of hatred.
“Cain...” I called for him.
But he ignored completely as the scene continued like a script of the original mory.
It was like I was unable to make a difference, everything was predetermined.
“Your sentence is to be carried out imdiately.”
He continued to walk towards with the sword in hand, unstopping and uncaring about anything I had to say.
This ti, i wanted to make the scene that i didn’t did before.
I wanted to scream at him that this was wrong, that i was innocent, but suddenly my voice was gone again.
Every ti I tried to speak it was like I was being suffocated, and every ti I tried to get up to run my body would refuse to listen.
There was no waiting for to place my head on the block. No, he imdiately stepped forward and swung his arm back.
I looked behind him for one final mont and saw Jena to his left staring at with such greed, almost salivating at the final blow about to be struck.
However, to my utter shock and horror, to his right, I saw the Goddess herself watching on.
She was a silent bystander, unmoving and expressionless as she stood and witnessed what was about to occur without a single ounce of remorse showing.
She had told I wouldn’t be alone this ti, and yet she showed no regret at seeing killed.
I wanted to laugh out loud.
The goddess told to write my own destiny and here everything is going according to the script she has written.
I can’t even say a single word that isn’t written in the novel of my life called ‘Fate’.
I t Cathain’s red eyes as he brought the sword down. I wanted to watch this ti, not die in the darkness as I had the last ti.
The impact was quick and swift as he finished the job in one movent. And finally, I felt at peace.
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I woke up to the feeling of soone lightly shaking my shoulder.
I wanted to protest against the touch and refuse to open my eyes, but the shaking was insistent.
“Ele?” a voice called to .
It was familiar and warm. It sounded like father.
I managed to open my eyes a bit, fighting against the bright light that was piercing my gaze.
But after several seconds of adjusting, I managed to make out the face of my father.
“Ele?” He called again.
“I’m alive...?” I said, my throat dry and sore.
Maria quickly brought so water to my lips and I began to sip on it, enjoying the refreshing feeling that ca with it.
“How are you feeling?”
My father asked as he put his hands on my forehead to cheak ny temperature.
How was I feeling? I was sure I had died again.
I was in the Abyss, I saw the mory. It was just like how it had felt last ti.
So, how was I feeling?
I felt confused by the entire situation right now.
“I should be dead,”
I replied.
Father’s face instantly turned black, also a little shocked by my blunt response.
“Leave us alone.”
My father spoke in a cold voice and in an instant, everyone left the room.
“Don’t say sothing like that, Ele. Father won’t let you get hurt anymore.”
“Daddy...”
“You have and everyone... Why would you be death? You have everything and everyone’s love for you...”
He said as he hugged in his arms and i wrapped my tiny hands around his shoulders.
Does this an I was never in the Abyss? Had it just been a nightmare the entire ti?
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