CROWNED BY BLOOD
"I don't know, Mother. I don't know anything anymore except that I love you... and that you're disappearing, piece by piece."
The weight of his words settled over me like a burial shroud. My children had saved him only to damn us both. In their righteousness, they had created a tragedy far worse than anything I had planned. Their salvation had left him as a whisper between worlds, and me as a woman slowly being erased by her own desperate love.
He had become the Silent, his voice could barely pierce the veil between life and death. And still, even through that silence, he whispered the one truth I could not bury: