Alex kept walking absentmindedly.
For some reason, everything that had happened today seemed unreal. Yet his mind kept taking him back, and he knew all too well that it was real.
Those were real lives that were lost.
Alex felt like a dark void was growing in his chest, constricting on his heart, muscles and organs with all their power.
He knew what this dark void was though.
Guilt.
Regret.
Alex was full of these emotions, and he couldn't do anything to rid himself of them.
Nor did he want to.
***
Time passed.
Alex had been walking continuously for an unknown amount of time, as he wasn't even keeping track anymore.
He just felt so exhausted.
He hadn't been to sleep once since he had come back from the Primordial Expanse.
In fact, he hadn't been to sleep for a whole week before that as well, as he had been too focused on stopping the Count.
And well…