This was a good follow-up though not totally faithful to it's predecessor.
It was still emotional, maybe even more so, it's now less of imagination and more of pain...A companion throgh utter duplicity sends you 'over the horizon' and you have faced what it was...
It has led you to your death, whether mental emotional or physical, it is greivant, painful, an End.
The sparing of one's life for another regardless of the opposite's feeling is truly innocent...
This made for a good conlusion, as death is the inevitable finale...Thanks for being inspired and thanks for giving some closure to seeing what was over the horizon...I love the obvious maneuvers around saying what it was, very classy, very mysterious, very imaginative for the reader aswell......
A good first piece and a worthy sequel