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The doctor had just left. Aunt Winnie lay on her side on Tiz’s bed, gently wiping his forehead with a warm towel.
“Karon, come out with me for a moment,” Mason said.
Karon stood up and followed his uncle out of the bedroom. Mason then opened the door to Karon’s own room and motioned for him to come inside.
Uncle and nephew sat facing each other. Mason sat on the bed, while Karon pulled the chair over from his desk and sat down in front of the man.
“None of us expected something like this to happen to your grandfather.”
Karon nodded. In truth, he had expected it. Not only that, the current situation was much better than the worst outcome he had imagined.
That was because Tiz had fulfilled his promise. He had returned alive. He had even said that he could be awakened.
But the price of that awakening…
Karon felt that waking Tiz would be no different from “awakening” an ordinary corpse. Once the last trace of remnant spirituality in his body was consumed, all that would remain would be truly nothing more than a corpse, in the purest sense of the word.
Was that tragic?
No. Because comparison changed everything. It was, instead, a kind of relief. Tiz was still able to be awakened. He was not dead, nor had he left forever.
So Karon adjusted himself, suppressing his sorrow and forcing his heart to stay filled with forward-looking hope. Tiz had already done everything he could. The road ahead was now Karon’s to walk. And what lay at the end of that road?
In the past, it had been vague....
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