God's voice sounded utterly exhausted.
Winona's tense nerves finally relaxed. She took a deep breath before barely managing to steady her trembling body.
She choked out. "I thought you had disappeared forever."
'I won't. I will always stay by your side.'
Those words were clearly meant to comfort Winona.
Her nose stung again, and more tears slipped down her cheeks.
"I really, really need you..."
A faint chuckle seemed to echo inside Winona's mind.
After that, there was no further response.
*****
The Callahan family's ancestral home, inside the family shrine.
Candlelight flickered softly.
Marcus knelt before a row of ancestral memorial tablets, remaining silent and motionless for a long time.
When Marcus was young, his stepmother had treated him cruelly.
Whenever he made a mist
