Surreal Immortality

Daybreak was still a few hours away yet everyone was already awake. None of them had been able to sleep. Not after Elroy returned, announcing he had failed to stop the girl because of some unknown ally of hers that showed up, forcing him to leave before he could finish his job. Not since the Emperor revealed to all of them what he had up to this moment confided only to some. That the girl had the Chosen One in her hands. And that, any moment now, she would also have the Demon's heart.