"They are not my people. They are the ones who denied me my proper place in the world and robbed me of my future. Before I die...it is too late," her powerful frame bent under the weight of her encompassing doom. "Have either of us asked anything from the other?"
"No."
"I am asking now. Alal, come back for me. Find a way and bring me back so I can resolve this unfinished matter. Promise me," she looked back over the lake.
"That is not something within my power," I reminded Shammuramat.
"You will find a way."
"I will continue to decipher how the divinities, demons and spirits accomplish it - one day." Sleep called to her while I had found something else to roam my thoughts while slumber eluded me. "I cannot promise you..."
"If you cannot promise to come back for me," her words hung th
