Instead, Nero is able to lure her farther away.
With her last strands of life, Aul puts her hand on Roses pained, bloodied face and smiles.
She urges Rose to stay the one they admire, before breathing her last.
Rose, utterly broken, lets out a primal scream.
But she asks the king to relieve her of her army command and revoke her knighthood.
She refuses to heal her eye, so she never forgets the lives lost under her watch.
She spends a month alone in the suddenly empty and silent barracks once so full of life.
But Rose has no intention of ending the life Aul gave her.
Its only a matter of what to do with it.
She knows shell need someone like her who can both heal and fight.
