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Kirone hovered in the empty vacuum, the silence pressing down on her harder than any force she had endured, and under that weight, something inside her finally broke.
Her parents were gone.
So were the members of the Xagna family who had mattered.
She had arrived too late.
She had seen the aftermath with her own eyes.
There was nothing left to save, nothing left to protect, and no excuse she could cling to that would soften that truth.
Rage flooded through her, her grip on her spear tightening as she stared at the space the hooded figure had escaped through, hatred burning so fiercely it drowned out everything else.
She wanted to chase them, to tear through space until she found them, but there was nothing to follow, no trace, no destination she could lock onto.
She knew all too well that spatial tears like that could send someone anywhere across the universe, just like some of her subordinates had been thrown outside the galaxy earlier.
