Leah stood before the tomb with tears in her eyes.

How could this happen? she kept wondering. How can he really be gone?

He had come so far. He had survived so much. To think that a life such as his would end not in glorious battle, nor peacefully in the night as an old man, but by the blade of a cowardly assassin. It was criminal. It was unfair.

You deserved better than this, Leah thought. You earned better than this.

She thought back to all the dangers she had ...