Chapter 298: Is it not Enough?

Frederick "Her enemies are still alive," Ariel said, sending an instant jolt of fear through Frederick's mind. "What enemies now?" he asked aloud, his voice laced with frustration. "Celine lives. Darius lives." Frederick instantly blanked out. Darius. He remembered the snarling wolf he had disgraced. Celine. He remembered her too—the maddened woman who tried her best to pull him and his family down, only to end up disgraced herself. He didn’t know about Darius, but he had thought Celine would have been dead by now. "Why is Celine still alive?" he found himself asking. She was like that one cobweb that, no matter how many times you tried to get rid of it, continued to stick to you. Even after you thought it was gone, it would reappear when you least expected, gathering dust and growing larger over time. "Pesky, that’s what she is," Ariel said. "You see, Frederick, those two forces have found themselves locked in a strange tear, made deep in the bowels of Hades. The both of them a