He sat up, looking around the room he was in. It was familiar, from what he could tell, but his sight was blurry from the shot he took to the head. After a few moments, his vision came back into focus and confirmed that he was in one of the cells he had visited earlier on behalf of The Union. He quickly rose to his feet and realized Lucius was with him, sitting in the corner and staring off with a goofy smile. “How long have we been here?” Alerik said. “Six hours and thirty-seven minutes. We have been found guilty of treason. They should be sending someone here to execute us, soon,” he said in a matter-of-fact tone. “Well that is just fantastic. So it’s all over, and this was all for nothing,” Alerik muttered as he put his head into his hands. “I wouldn’t say it was all for nothing, you made some new friends.” Alerik frowned, “How can you be so calm about this?” “I was never supposed to have a life to begin with. You and Saskia rescued me, and showed me another entire world that I was missing out on.
