“I…I didn’t know he had removed the last embers from himself. If I had—” “If you had, you wouldn’t have…what? Killed him by accident?” A heavy breath shuddered from Kolis. “I…I didn’t mean to.” His eyes were so wide, so full of gold, that for a moment he didn’t look like the false King of Gods, but a man who had made many mistakes. “Because how could he love me?”