[Music recommendation: R. Armando Morabito - Angel (Official Audio) ft. Julie Elven]
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It was as if time had come to a standstill.
The dark clouds that loomed over the land like a harbinger of death felt the instant change in the air, as though heaven itself were holding its breath.
It was a moment that could go either way.
A moment that would lead to either the total destruction of the world or the breath of life returning to a world choked by darkness.
Ivan lunged, inching closer to Evelyn's free-falling body as a cold, paralysing dread seized his chest.
In that fractured second, with Azrath's grotesque tentacles that were mere inches away from his beloved, an impossible sound cut through the roar of the battlefield.
Thump!
His eyes, locked with singular intensity on Evelyn's pale form, widened.
His own dead heart shuddered at that one faint, miraculous pulse.
