"Faaaather!" Tabit screamed as she ran towards him.
Too stunned, Rigel spun and saw what his father did. He left the hilt of the sword. His mind going numb, he sank on his knees in front of his father. "Father…" he rasped, his skin pebbling with goosebumps. He never expected that his father would end up killing himself. "What have you done?" he cried as he scanned his father's chest as he lifted him in his lap.
Mintaka looked at him, his eyes dropping and his breath leaving. "This was necessary, Rigel. Don't bother—"
Eltanin let out a loud growl with so much force that his aura spilled out and everyone came to a standstill. He rushed to his friend's side and knelt beside him to see Mintaka.
Tabit too came to sit beside her father. "Why father?" she sobbed. She wanted to prevent exactly this, and yet she couldn't. "I came late!" Her shoulders wrecked with a loud sob.
