Chapter 1035: The grain palace (1/2)

Her thought then speeds up and everything seems to slow down even more. She could see that her husband is using a chopping motion toward her neck slowly.

Like a very slowed down video

There is a force swirling around his hand. It is not enough to kill but strong enough to make someone unconscious.

If she wanted to evade, now is the time. Her heart says fight. Her mind said to let it go. In that moment, she looks toward Nathalie under Loki arm.

Loki seems to notice as he looks toward her. And he smiles.

Even in this situation where everything seems to slow down, that her thought process become so fast that synapses is shooting off in her brain nerve, Loki seems to be able to sync his consciousness with her, matching up with the speed of her thought

It is akin like moving in super speed where everything seems to slow down only it is different in that only the perception of time was slowed down.

But even that did not escape Loki eyes. She made her decision right at that moment. She did not show any signs that she would deflect that attack coming towards her

Tears of sadness falls form her eyes and then she let go.

Time seems to move again for her and just right before that hand reach her neck, she whispers to him

'Sorry. I love you' And then the strike connected.

A shockwave exploded and disperse some of the green mist around Nathan and Riana. Riana was about to fall down but Nathan grab her and hugged her unconscious body.

Nathan eyes is moist with water. He hugged her and he almost didn't want to let go. Loki then sighed

'You made the right choice.'

Nathan did not answer. Instead he said

'It did not feel like it'

Loki smiles bitterly.

'She is still one of my people after all. At the end, she chose to be a mother. I know she would never make this choice if not for the baby in my arms' Pausing for a second, he then added

'She did not like abandoning people. Because she was abandoned herself'

Nathan did not say anything as the moment keep on moving. A second felt like a year. And he wished that time would stretch out for infinity as he hugged her tightly.

He closes his eyes, fearing that his tears would fall down. Sadness comes in many forms. Nathan had suffered a lot in the course of his life

And he had made people suffers before. A life of a sinner

It is not like this is the first time he felt sadness. But nothing trumps this sorrow he is feeling right now

A sorrow where even if he screams and sobs and unleash all the tears in his eyes, it could not be stopped.

Bottling up like some kind of poisons that coursing through his vein. A sadness that have no name.

He had felt what it felt like to fall in love. To live a normal life. A happy life. A life without no waves. Only calmness and peace.

He felt the joy of being a father. Felt the joy of being a husband. Of someone who have been loved and of loving someone.

And right now, at this moment, when death was so close that all of this happy memories flashed inside his mind and his sorrow multiplied by a hundred fold. Knowing that he has to leave it all behind

But then, thinking that his daughter would be safe, then that sorrows, the regrets and the fears all dissipated. The tears fall, but the sadness is no longer.

He then looks at Loki and said with a cold voice.

'keep your promise' Loki nodded

'I'll take care of her'

Nathan then carries Riana on his arms. One arm under her legs and the other supporting her back and he carried her toward Loki

And then he laid her down on the ground near Loki.

Loki click his fingers and a bed made of green mist appears from underneath her and it floats before flying slowly behind Loki

Nathan takes a deep breath. It is not every day that one knows exactly when they are going to die. It takes courage to face death, to accept death the way he is right now

The Nathan in the past would never be this brave. But, he now has Nathalie. That child not once she was disturbed. She sleeps very peacefully. He then walks toward Loki