The Vampire King Married Death
she said quietly, “its pain is lifted before it enters the next world. Hatred, vengeance, grief, and fear are left behind. Only peace crosses the Veil.”
She looked toward the city beyond the castle.
“They never reached me.”
The realization settled over the courtyard like a curse.
The restless dead were not monsters.
They were broken souls trapped between life and death, still carrying every wound, every betrayal, and every injustice they had suffered while alive.
Prince Caelan stepped forward, refusing to let sympathy cloud his judgment.
“Then this proves it,” he declared. “She is the cause of all this.”
He pointed accusingly at Nyx.
“From the moment she entered our world, the dead began wal