I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
"Every time it ends, it is because you die. And every time it begins again, the world forgets. Everyone forgets. Everyone except me."
Elara's breath caught, the fire crackling softly in the silence that followed his words.
"You are remembering now," Kael continued, "because something in this loop is different. Something has cracked open that was always sealed tight before. I don't yet understand why. But I fear, Elara, that whatever is happening to you now is only the very beginning."
He looked at her then, and in his eyes she saw not the feared Black Villain of a hundred whispered stories, but a man worn thin and hollow by grief stretched across more lifetimes than any single soul should ev