In the world outside, mere seconds had passed. Yet, to the little girl, it might as well have been eons—both in the first and second legacy worlds.
But she was not the only one undergoing a trial of her own.
The Count, too, was facing what would be a pivotal shift in his very being—or perhaps, what was awakening had always been there, merely hidden from the world, within the depths of his perceived self.
Did he deserve this? Maybe not. But this was a world where even the smallest circumstances could have world-ending consequences for another.
And while this was certainly not world-ending—okay, maybe to a certain extent, but that was beside the point.
