He stared at Alstera's stunning visage, his heart heavy…
He wasn't a fool. He could already make out that her disappearance and everything that occurred after wasn't her fault.
But knowing and feeling were different. Deep down in his heart he held resentment towards her, though he knew it wasn't fair.
He shook his head and made his stance clear with a simple explanation:
"I can't. I'm sorry, but it can't work… See, I'm the Bearer of the Order of Justice… And with you and a few members of your crew, I can't just relate with.
The only relationship we can be permitted to have is as enemies, and being each other's Nemesis."
Alstera's gaze trembled, her amethyst eyes dimming, as though something fragile she had been protecting all these years just died.
Sinister dark smoke started billowing around her frame as a night-black tear streamed from one of her eyes.
"So you're saying we can only be enemies?!" she voiced, her tone chaotic.
