Burn: The Last Witness (part 9.5) *BONUS*

Burn: The Last Witness
(The Midnight Hunt)
*As soon as Burn reaches her throne, the Blood Empress does nothing more than to invite him further on. The love they shared so long ago stays Burns hand, he cannot lift a weapon to kill her just as he couldn't do it over a century before. But this time, he also doesn't make the mistake of leaving her any allies she could give him to, and this time the Blood Empress doesn't even try to defend herself by working any of her magic. She only explains why. How her son wasn't killed when her husband betrayed the survivors Burn abandoned. How her husband did give so many to Erus...so his infection from the 9th plague could be stopped...yet in doing so their son was infected and she's spent the last thousand years holding him in stasis. The bowels of her castle is nothing more than a dungeon filled with blue water holding most of the magic that brought her boy back from his illness but could never cure him fully. The Blood Empress confesses that she spent a millenia working such darkness trying desperate to get the 9th plague all the way out of her child but no matter what she tried nothing was a success until she found a way. The Old One has to die to end its infection for good, as does any who ever served it, which means she needs to be the first to go and Burn has to be the one to do it [AI Art]*