Haemon took two steps back to confirm what his father had said. The respect he attempted to maintain was quickly fading and his disappointment for his father melted into anger.
"We're not invincible father," he said. "But do understand that our decisions have the power to affect another's fate."
Not entirely understanding what his son was declaring, Creon dismissed it as the babble of youth.
"Has it not occurred to you that, that is the very reason why I am to keep a firm stance on justice?" Creon asked.
"Even for a faulty law that you proclaimed for your personal discord," Haemon mocked.
Not permitting his father to refute, he swiftly left the room. Moments later, the king was told of Teiresias' arrival to the castle. Eager to inqu8ire about the effects of his actions, Creon prepared himself for the blind prophet. As Teiresias told him of the disaster and pain that would soon find him, Creon ordered his servants to the stone vault that held Antigone.
Hours later, Creon's servants were seen nearing the castle gates. The king sat intently and began to focus on the accompanying problem with the matter of his son. The slow steps of his servants were soon heard in the stone corridor. Creon turned to greet him at his door. Expecting to see them accompanied by Antigone, the King's heart burned to a halt as he saw his son's body in the arms of his love. Antigone could barely support her own after two days without light or adequate food or air, but she still managed to carry Haemon from the vault across the city to the castle.
Antigone walked slowly toward the king's bed and laid down the prince's body. The King gazed in disbelief as the young woman removed her hood and took her hobbit from her shoulders and placed it over Haemon's crimson-drenched body.
Staring straight into Creon's eyes, Antigone spoke softly, "By a ragged, torn cloak I have instantly bestowed more respect for you as a man that you have upon me as a king to his subject."
Months later, Antigone was informed of King Creon's suicide and Eurydice's new reign as the Queen of Thebes. Creon was unable to live with the knowledge that he had killed his own son, for he ordered the guards to shoot anyone who came near the stone vault that imprisoned Antigone. The arrows that had pierced his son's lungs were daggers to his chest and it was only a subject of time until his blood ran dry.
Antigone visited Teiresias once more. After inquiring of her future, the prophet had not much to say.
"For you, Antigone, I see only clouds and clouds. Clouds and then…sun."