Chapter 116: She's Gone

"Arie!!! My dearest, please, pull yourself together!" A voice suddenly echoed all over the Abyss and caught me right before my body hit the surface of the lake.

The scent of the meadow in the spring filled me with warmth, despite the agony in my heart.

I felt my tears gushing down my face as I tried to open my eyes.

A familiar face I missed so much, though his image differed from what I remembered. Half of his hair and one of his wings became black. His eyes turned golden like my mother's, and his hair became longer.

"Father, Ayla's gone. It's all my fault." I agonized as I wept, curling in his arms.

"It's not your fault. It's your father’s fault. It is my fault," he trembled as we fled away from the Abyss.

My father brought me back to Nirvana, holding me tightly in his arms.

Dylan ran worriedly towards us while looking around confusedly as he kneeled before us without uttering a word.

"Follow us," my father ordered.

Dylan followed us from behind as my father turned around and walked t