Highly Recommended Listening: [Give Me Everything—By Archer Marsh]
A cost that no man should ever have to pay. Those words were haunting, and it made Lady Karina wonder just what Orpheus Van Merikh sacrificed in the cause for more power.
She thought on it a moment longer, relating back to Orpheus' interest in the White Phoenix. Was that why the man was seeking out the heavenly beast? To escape the darkness of the creature possessing him?
Still, if he was not ready to tell her, she would not pester him. As much as time was of the essence, handling Orpheus had turned out to be quite a delicate and complicated matter.
The man was far more fragile than one would expect, and if she didn't handle him with care, she may very well bring about further doom on her people and provoke whatever was inside him lying dormant for now.
