“I would rather save the ones who can still be saved!” Her voice broke the rain. “There are children in the upper wards. Children , Kael. The Rite doesn’t discriminate. It burns everyone inside the radius. You told me that yourself three years ago. You called it monstrous.”
He had fifteen minutes.
“I took vows to protect people, Kaelen. Not to burn half the city to prove a point.” Dilemma of Devotion -Ch.2 Ep 4.5- By PulseHaven...
The Half-Light Terrace – A suspended garden caught between the war temple below and the civilian safe-zone above. Rain falls sideways in this liminal space. “I would rather save the ones who can still be saved
“Mira,” he said. Not a plea. Not a command. Just her name, spoken like a prayer he’d forgotten he believed in. The Rite doesn’t discriminate
“Say it again,” Mira whispered. Not angry. Just tired.
“I can’t.” His voice cracked on the second word.