Title: The Unfulfilled Redemption

Challenge Response: Redemption

Rating: T

Word Count: 103

He flicked the lights on, numbly walking into his apartment for the first time in forty-eight hours. Why was he here?

He should have been dead. By all rights and purposes, he should have been buried under unknown tons of limestone.

But he wasn't. He was alive- as were Michael, Yurika, and Miho. They had uncovered the secret of the Orbo, halted the callous treatment of witches.

As he lay down on the couch, staring up at the stark white ceiling, he wondered if, somehow, there had been a redemption of some sort.

He also wondered if he had really fulfilled his part.