Rage grasped my conscience immediately. I could not let something like this happen again. Not again!
"A.. azzz.. a.."
I tried to call him out, but the words coming out of my mouth were useless and weak. And under his roars of pain, those broken words evaporated in the air like black smoke in the darkened sky.
The smell of the wet soil had filled my nose and I could taste the dirt on my lips. But except that I was unable to feel any texture or motion. Paralysis had rendered me pitifully lifeless.
Azazel's eyes slowly opened only to collide with mine. Unlike the times that I had seen his red eyes, the confidence, the wickedness, the strong will, there was nothing there. He was not the Azazel I knew anymore. He was someone who needed to be healed, who had gotten sucked into a hole so de
