Kai sat in his office staring a mountain of paper work on his desk. Since Levana died, there had been problems to sort out from all the attacks by her army of mutants and distributing the cure for Letumosis. There also had been the matter of arranging treaties and negotiations with the Lunars and attending Winter's coronation which had just ended that morning. Sighing he mussed his neat hair into a mess, leaning back in his seat. As his tired eyes scanned the room his eyes fell upon the rusty cyborg foot on his desk. His heart began to ache again thinking of Cinder.
Cinder had managed to shoot Levana in the head but in the process she died from a stab wound in the chest when Levana stabbed her. Her internal processors had immediately shut down her body, lowering blood pressure when they sensed a sudden loss of blood. When medics arrived at the scene, she was just barely holding on, her breathing erratic and faint. She was immediately rushed on a gurney into the palace hospital and put on life support. While Luna's citizens celebrated Levana's end, Kai had stayed constantly at Cinder's side willing her to wake up from her coma. A few days later, Kai had fallen asleep from exhaustion, a doctor shook him gently awake. Kai looked up at the doctors face and knew what had happened. There was an eerie silence in the room except for the heart monitor next to Cinder's unconscious body. It gave an "eeeeeee" as it flatlined. He rushed over to her bedside shaking silently tears falling as he clutched her to his chest, creasing his already blood stained uniform without caring. He rocked her back and forth as he shook, if all the love he had could bring her back. Torin rushed in hearing Kai's sobs and held Kai in his arms hugging him until Kai couldn't sob anymore.
Kai tries to wish away where he was and tried to imagine a time where things could have turned out differently. Her boyish ways, with oil smeared everywhere all over her clothes and cargo pants. Remembering a kiss and a promise, he holds the rusty foot to his chest whispering, "I wanted the future with you in it".