Tommy told Alen everything. He spoke with trembling hands and a quivering voice, recounting every terrible thing that had happened since the joint attack between the military and the Dark Guild against the Cerebus Group.
He described the fall of their division, how it wasn't the enemy that destroyed them but Harvey and his men themselves. The story poured out of him in fragments, but the meaning was clear. The massacre had been deliberate.
"The only reason I'm alive," Tommy said, voice cracking, "was because one of the Dark Magus members helped me escape. If it weren't for him… I'd be dead like the others."
He paused to wipe his tears with the back of his sleeve. "I was terrified to return to the Dark Guild. If they saw me, they'd know I survived. They'd finish what they started. So I've been hiding, watching, waiting, praying I'd find you somehow. And now, the skies have finally blessed me."
