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“Thank you, Lewyn...”
Lewyn woke up to see the turquoise haired figure standing over him.
“What happened...” he groggily croaked out.
“Get up,” Forseti commanded as he helped the prince stand up on his feet. “Your service to me was exemplary. We’ve finally gotten Jugdral on the path back to restoration.”
Lewyn looked around; he saw that they were in what seemed to be Belhalla, which was as busy with people as he remembered it. Strangely the many defects of that city were absent.
He then looked down at his hands; he was surprised to see that the many wrinkles that he earned with age were gone. It was like if he was twenty years old again.
“Are you wondering where we are?”
Lewyn nodded.
“Lewyn, I would like to welcome you to Paradise, where you will experience eternal bliss as a reward for your just life.”
“Paradise?” Lewyn inquired, agape. He was shocked that a failure like him would get rewarded with this. For a few moments, Lewyn was speechless.
He then pierced the silence with a question.
“Forseti, why must you have done this to me? Why did you force me to turn my back on my family?”
Lewyn stared at Forseti; he was filled not with anger, but with disappointment.
Forseti laughed. “It was for the greater good, my son; the world is going to heal thanks to our accomplishments.”
“But what about my children? What about the trauma from their father turning their back on them?”
“Ced and Fee are going to do fine; there is no need for you to wo-”
“Hell, what about Erinys?! She died in pain because of you! She died knowing that her husband had abandoned her! How will I ever make that up to her?!”
Forseti motioned for Lewyn to stop. “If you allowed me to explain, you would get some answers...”
The turquoise haired manakete turned around and pointed towards one of the many people walking around the city. It was a woman with long, green hair that curled around the sides of her face.
“My son, I believe someone special here has been waiting for you for quite a while…”
Lewyn recognized her immediately and ran towards her.
“Erin!”
The two were filled with glee as they reunited for the first time in decades; they immediately embraced in a hug.
“Lewyn!”
Lewyn buried his face into Erinys’s shoulder as he began shedding tears.
“Erin, I’m so sorry for being such a pathetic failure!” he cried. “I was a terrible husband and father.”
“Lewyn...”
“I don’t deserve your forgiveness, Erin. But trust me when I say that I love you. I truly did the entire time!”
Lewyn’s voice broke as he continued to weep tears of regret. Erinys then began to comfort her husband by patting him on the back.
“...Lewyn, I understand...it’s not your fault.” she said. “I understand that someone had to take on that duty...”
“So you forgive me?”
“Lewyn, I still love you just as much as I did on the day of our wedding. Of course I forgive you!”
Erinys wiped Lewyn’s tears away with her hand as she said this to him. They then hugged each other tighter, relishing this moment.
“Please Lewyn...just never leave me again...” she asked of him as a single tear of joy ran down her face.
Lewyn looked at her and touched her cheek, wiping her tear away just as she did for him.
“I won’t, Erin...there’s no reason for me to. After all, we’ll have an eternity to spend with each other...”
Fin