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*Richard's POV*

It was my fault she had ever suffered. Her sister, gone; her home destroyed. Every single Confessor killed. Even she had almost died time and time again to save me. For a cause she couldn't completely fathom, but still put one hundred percent blind faith in.

After all we had been through, her losing her powers and us getting a chance to work, to being separated, to almost dying countless times; this was how everything ended? It wasn't fair! Especially considering that she was so innocent.

I made her spend one glorious night with me when she just wanted us to plan how to make the possibility of our relationship everlasting. I made her stay with me even though she was having visions that if she stayed, I'd surely die. So how was it that she was the one whose lifeless corpse now laid on my lap? Why was it her lips that were blue and frozen, her eyes open with her last emotion, fear, cutting through my soul?

"Richard, it's not your fault kid. She knew what she was getting herself into. She knew it might come to this, that she might have to sacrifice her life for you to live on. We were both prepared to do it." Zedd said putting a hand on my shoulder as I cried silently.

"It isn't fair. I... She wanted to leave. She tried, and I should have let her go, but I just couldn't bear the thought of losing her. I was selfish... And now she's dead." I said choking on the guilt and pain. Zedd was looking at me. With sympathy I couldn't see, but could feel.

"Richard, she would have died had she left your side. She couldn't have gone through with it, no matter how much she pretended she could. Richard, don't you see? You were everything to her." I couldn't look at him, could only stare at her cold, lifeless body in my arms. Blood stained her dress, was splattered on her lips and cheeks.

"This can't be it. Zedd there has to be a way... She can't be... She can't be gone." I whispered staring at her with more tears falling from my eyes.

"I don't know Richard. You shouldn't meddle with the affairs of death. He is a selfish thing. If you somehow managed to cheat death and bring her back, I have no doubts she wouldn't be the Kahlen we know. She'd be something else, something darker." he said thoughtfully, which angered me.

"How can you just stand there and ramble on with your musings while her dead body is two feet away? And what would you have me to do? Give up on her? How can you stand there and suggest something like that?" I spat at him, furious.

"Richard, she wouldn't want you to stay here and wallow in grief while other soldiers make their way here to kill you. You have to let go, and we have to leave, now!" Zedd said ignoring my fury towards him. "Zedd, I can't leave her here." I said feeling hollow. I couldn't leave her here, for someone to find spattered with her own blood, or for an animal to find and slowly devour. The latter thought sent bile into the back of my throat. "I can't leave her..." I whispered.

KPOV

I awoke because of the brightness behind my eyelids. It was painful to open my eyes, but I did so anyways just to figure out where exactly I was. My eyes eventually fell onto the nearest person, and it is then that I realize I'm dead. Tears spring into my eyes as I shake my head furiously. "No, no, no. I can't be dead, I can't... I can't fail him! Please, no..." I sobbed into my hands. This couldn't be happening. I couldn't be a failure. I couldn't be dead. I was the only Confessor left. What would Richard do? The prophecy clearly said a Confessor had to help him all the way... My failure meant the end of everyone else. I had doomed all those I hold dear, and what did I have?

An arm slips around my shoulders and I sob harder. "Kahlen, I mean Mother Confessor, you must stop. Hush your tears." Dennee soothed, but oddly enough I found no comfort in her words.

"I killed him. My death means the end of Zedd, the end of our lands... The end of Richard... I have failed. I knew years ago when they made me Mother Confessor I wouldn't be strong enough... And I was right." I whispered as tears poured down my face.

Dennee rested her hand on my shoulder with a strained smile and gestured to the land around us. "You haven't failed yet, Kahlen. But now the future is yours to decide. Welcome to you personal version of Limbo."

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