Chapter 62 – Epilogue

Book:Ceaselessly Gravity (Gravity Book 1) Published:2024-5-1

Epilogue
“They both disappeared just like that.”
Lady Faye uttered to herself while sitting on a cushioned seat near the fireplace of the study room. Her hands were clasping on her lap, her back was pressed against the backrest, and her head was bent low, staring at the blue flames on the hearth.
Lord Jared was standing near the window sill, his eyes fixed on the sunrise beyond the stretch of the north field. “I can’t believe it. To think that the stone really does hold power. No wonder the late King did great lengths to acquire it, ” he stated.
“No wonder he forbade the princess to go outside the mansion, ” Lady Faye countered. “The blood coursing through her veins is actually the key.”
“Tsk… the key to his insanity that is, ” Jared icily commented, then a moment of silence enveloped the room once again.
“General Cain’s body should arrive in the Soulisse mansion by this time.” Lady Faye inhaled a deep breath, then closed her eyes. The memory of last night’s event was still fresh in her mind. His lifeless body, dragged out of Lianne’s room after the two royal’s bodies disappeared, but she noticed a sudden orb of light materialized from his body then. She was confused, unable to grasp the entirety of it.
Though Jared was able to fill in the crumbs of details about the emerald stone, the cave in the City of Olga, and its power, Lady Faye was still doubting its veracity. If all was true. If all was left hanging like this. Then, what now?
“What now?” she stated, voicing out her concern.
“What now indeed, ” Jared parroted with a long sigh. “Maybe, what we can do now is to continue where King Ruen left off. Rebuild the cities. Rebuild everything that Garlow had destroyed. And maybe in the process, rebuild our lives for the better.
“Yes, that would probably be the best thing to do, ” Lady Faye responded, nodding in agreement.
“Indeed.”
***
Silence. Just silence. Everywhere, an unbearable silence.
The white light continued ceaselessly as Ruen continued floating, just floating. His eyes closed, his breathing calm, like he was just sleeping. Sleeping for eternity.
It seemed like for eternity though but all of a sudden, the emerald green light slowly dispersed. And then gravity, actual gravity started to pull him down. Down to reality.
He felt someone touching his forehead feeling for his temperature. Touching his neck, feeling for a carotid pulse. And then he was hoisted up while lying on a gurney. He heard a strong sound of a siren and realized that he was truly in reality.
“Where am I?” Ruen asked weakly. His eyes squinting, struggling to clear his vision.
The only thing he saw in his line of vision though was a brown-skinned middle-aged man with an unusually shaped beard, wearing a checkered white and black fedora hat. His smile was genuinely warm, looking worriedly at him like he was his son.
“Don’t worry, you will be fine. I will make sure the emergency response team will take care of you and take you to the nearest hospital, ” the man said.
Ruen however didn’t reply to his statement.
His focus was diverted to the forgotten senses of his body: the clear blue sky that greeted his eyes, the sharpness of his hearing, the feeling of the rough leather against his palm, the bland taste of snow on his lips, the cold air in his lungs, and the vertiginous sensation in his head. It has truly been a while since he felt this alive.
Closing his eyes, only one memory remained in his thoughts. The kick of the sedative immediately ushered him to sleep, but before he drifted into unconsciousness, he whispered a name that profoundly erupted in his heart.
“Lianne…”