Goodbye, my mate
But Cairo's voice stopped me, sharp and pleading through his sobs.
"Your Highness! Please tell me! Is there an afterlife in this world? If I die now, Master and I will definitely meet again in the afterlife, right?!"
I paused, half-turning to look at him. His face was a mess of blood and tears, his eyes wild with a hope I couldn't bear.
"There is no afterlife," I said, my voice flat and cold, a blade to sever his delusion. It was the truth I clung to - no redemption, no reunion, just the dark and the dust.
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