บท 171: Flared up

"What have you done?!"

As he held his Nessy's frail hand, he felt their unborn son's kicks grow still. The wicked god Shai's cruel laughter echoed through the temple, as the divine being's dark magic suffocated the life from their little family.

"What have you done Shai!" he screamed in pain but the god's power was unforgiving.

He looked at Nessy's eyes, once bright with love and hope, faded like embers, her gaze fixed on their unborn child. He felt her final breath whisper across his skin, a soft "I love you" lost in the void.

Their son, never to take his first breath, was silenced by Shai's malevolent force. Geb's heart shattered, his world reduced to ashes.

He screamed at the heavens, "Why, Shai? What cruelty drives you?" But the god's response was only cold silence.