The One Left Standing (18)

Boron's scowl made him look less stone-like than even he could have imagined. Watching Aigas take on a rather unusual shape that most of the mortals on it couldn't even recognise, much less comprehend, was almost appalling on several levels.

This was what most would have called the end of the world, and to Boron's disgust, it was coming about not because of him, but because of two oddities that he had severely underestimated.

Boron gazed at Suzamete. The expression on her face hadn't changed. This, to him, spelled that the current state of Aigas wasn't going to lead to its extinction. Or would it?

Boron hadn't missed the fact that Suzamete was hiding a lot of details, probably many more than she had admitted to. There was something more than just the ending of the fight between these two anomalies, something else hidden in the future that only she could see.