Saying Goodbye (4)

"The patient ... the patient is dead," whispered Natan in a choked voice. "I'm sorry, Your Highness. I shouldn't have raised your hope up like that."

Emma couldn't even howl and wail as she should. During the past week, she had cried so much that her eyes hurt, and the tear stain on her cheeks couldn't go away.

The girl just froze like an ice statue. All of her senses were no longer working. She couldn't hear anything. Her vision was also blurred with tears. 

And she simply couldn't feel Therius hugging her waist.

"Maybe ... what happened just now ... was the last flicker before the flame went out," said Natan sadly.

As a doctor, he had become accustomed to seeing how patients in critical or terminal conditions seemed to improve for a while, but then their condition immediately worsened, and suddenly, they died.