Chapter 38: New Beginnings

Liliana’s POV

The mass graves stretch across the entire land. Where once was a place of refuge for the rogues now is a place of mourning. The early morning sun casts its radiant hue upon the shimmering stones where the names of those who had died here are inscribed. A rock once void of meaning now is a sombre canvas painted with the echoes of lost lives.

I walk to each and every one of the graves, my fingers tracing their names forever etched in stone. These are the people who had given me hope when all had been lost to me. These are the very people who had lost their lives to protect mine. These are the very people who died so that I could live.

I will never be able to atone them for all that they had sacrificed. It should have been me lying six feet underground.

I stop at the doctor’s tombstone and place a yellow rose on it. Then, I sit down beside her tombstone, near t