Where The Dead Ones Go Book 4 -Union-

Chapter 41

"What I have done, I will never be forgiven. I am sending everyone to their deaths. What I am doing is unforgivable no matter how much I regret it, mother. Why do I have to do it?!"

The goddess of hope kneeled before me and softly lifted my head and let it rest on her lap, "Because that's the only path left for you to tread on. Bloodied, full of death and dark."

"It is the surest path to the future I have been wishing for so long and I know I have accepted the sins that I have to bear when I chose this for myself. But now that we are on the edge of dawn, I am now realizing just how much blood in my hands now. Countless of lives lost all for a cause that I lead them to."

She shed a tear for me and smiled kindly, "Such is the burden of the empress who must bear the fate of the en