Prologue

When one is among the stars, they have an eternity to think. To ponder. To change.

Change. That beautiful thing that made ephemeral life so wonderful.

That beautiful thing which humans were so prone to doing. That beautiful thing which Heaven was unable to do.

An inability to change was what led to the Dominion fleeing their post. But now they were here, among the stars they'd so lovingly made with those whom they cared for the most.

Those whom they'd lost all that time ago.

That little red-haired angel, her eyes shining bright. That little angel with hope in her eyes, now extinguished in the sulfurous pools she'd been thrown into.

Where was Her Mercy?