He had made me promise him; that I would live and survive. I knew why he did it, but my heart hadn't desired to be parted in this way from his own. The emptiness and seemingly endless darkness without him there had made things for me so exhausting; I had secluded myself away from others; to protect me and to know I was living for him as he wanted me to.

Fate works in mysterious ways; no one knows how she weaves her webs, nor can they foresee how the threads cross and change as people make decisions that cause them to alter their course. One decision made by a man leads to a child's destiny being forever changed; but he never expected how it would alter when all was said and done.

As the light and life began to fade within; one wizard is expecting to go to Death with no regret. Even if he wished to die in another manner. He had done what he could; now it would be up to someone else to get revenge for him. But Death refused his champion's passage to the realm of the void, and aid came to him in an unexpected form.