Heron Lake Plateau [m] What's left for me and my broken heart if I cannot have you?

Fight me.

He could only laugh at that, a ragged gasping sound when she finally released his throat. Can't a guy die in peace? But there would be no peace for him, perhaps not even in death. Tybault closed his eyes.

There was no energy left in him to speak. But if he could have, he would have told Reina that he didn't know why he was here. That he should have stayed home, that she was nothing to him, that he'd come only because Reverie had asked and even that had been a mistake. It was easier than the truth.

Consciousness slipped away from him once again. It would not return for several days.