Amelia's POV

I didn’t breathe the entire time they dragged Lucifer toward the hut’s exit. The guards’ hands were rough, unyielding, as if he were already a corpse. Then, the healer’s voice cut through the panic like a blade, as the echo of the official’s earlier declaration still clanged in my skull…

“He is to be hung immediately.”

That moment… that was when the floor under my feet vanished.

And when the healer stopped them with a sharp “WAIT!”, then showed them the ...