Dilemma Of Devotion -ch.2 Ep 4.5- By Pulsehaven... Instant

His hands trembled as they rose to cover hers. “If I don’t do this…”

“Then stop looking for an option,” she whispered. “And start looking at me. Not as a soldier. Not as a liability. As the person who knows you cried for three days after your first kill. Who knows you hum off-key when you’re scared. Who knows that you’re not a monster, Kaelen—you’re just a man who’s been told so many lies he’s started believing them.”

“Then we fight the long war.” She smiled—small, sad, fierce. “Together. Like we swore. Before any vows. Before any Order. Just you and me against the world that keeps trying to break us.” Dilemma of Devotion -Ch.2 Ep 4.5- By PulseHaven...

The fifth bell did not ring.

Instead, the sky above the Half-Light Terrace turned gold—not from fire, but from the flare of a single, impossible choice. His hands trembled as they rose to cover hers

“The Vex Rite is not a point. It’s purification.” He stepped closer. She didn’t step back. “If we don’t complete it by dawn, the corruption spreads. You’ve seen what happens to the infected. Would you rather let them turn into—”

“I called it necessary.”

“You called it a nightmare.” She closed the distance. Now they were inches apart, her free hand pressed flat against his chest. His heartbeat thundered under her palm—fast, human, traitorous . “I remember. We were lying in the hayloft after the Solace Massacre. You said… you said you’d never let duty turn you into a monster.”