“Maybe he could only love it once he knew what it was like to have something to lose. He built the Descent on his story with Nyaxia. It was all a monument to her.” I considered this. She could be right. Perhaps the underworld, the Descent, Vathysia—all of it was just a game to Alarus before Nyaxia came along. Perhaps it only started to mean more to him once he realized he was building it for her. A legacy to protect them once he’d turned away from everything else he had. And he lost her in the end, anyway. What an uncomfortable thought. I didn’t want to look too hard at it.
