I burst into a fit of tears, unable to handle seeing him in such a pitiful state. He was the mightiest man I had ever known and yet here he was all battered down and weak, lying so helplessly in my lap as if his end was coming near and that he had already given up hope and braced himself for whatever was to come.
He raised his hands slowly and touched my cheek gently, wiping away the rogue tears falling down them, and smiled serenely as if he had finally found peace after nearly a decade.
“Turns out, the prophecy had indeed been right….There was no way I could outrun my fate for so long anyway. I just didn’t think I would go down like this so pathetically.”, he said softly in a low tone, and I stared at him bewilderedly, completely oblivious as to what he was talking about.
Why was h
