Author's Note: Here's a little bonus story from the For Amara section of this saga which highlights Amara's arrival in Heaven but the hidden price she paid. I've been toying with it for a while but was not 100% sure how to depict it. However I still wanted to write it really for the purpose of having a perspective other than Infinite's. Also since it was a really sudden decision to write this, it's also an apology for not writing/finishing anything else.

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The last thing I remembered of the world was that black beast with the stripe down his quills. That, and the pain. I could hardly breathe, I could feel myself shutting down forever as I collapsed to my knees, vainly clutching the gaping hole in my chest, the one that I knew had finally sealed my Bloodpooliean fate. It just wasn't the fate I spent my young life expecting.

As I felt the blood reach my paws through my gloves, I thought of him. I thought of his sweet eyes and his rough but caring voice... he'd no doubt blame himself for my fate. He was the one who chose to come here... but it's not all his fault, I don't hold a single gripe towards the one who should've become my husband, for as curiosity dealt a feline's final blow, vanity has killed this jackal.

I looked up to the one who had struck me down, looking as fiercely into his eyes as I physically could and I gave him my warning. "You are a destroyer. You are a killer. You are a coward. The spilling of my blood and the taking of my life will destroy this planet and millions on it.... Shadow." With this villain to my kind's entire history reprimanded, I turned to the sky as if the wind would deliver my final breath to my beloved. "Infy... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

I finally allowed myself to collapse, and even though I was unwilling to let go of my life, it was snatched from me in that instant, and absolutely everything ended.

Amara Primrose... I heard a powerful voice ring. Open your eyes child...

I finally opened them, afraid of what I might see in front of me, but was met with a gleaming landscape that words would only cheapen, one that I could only describe as having streets of gold. What... Is this... Heaven?

I couldn't focus, even if a voice had spoken to me, I couldn't process anything... but if this was Heaven...

Genesis... my baby... where is she?!

"He-hey! Voice?"

You want to know where the daughter you never met is, correct?

Uhhh, am I talking to a mind reader?!

I see your distress, child...

As if I was being granted a sign, a beam of light seemed to direct me, but as I reached the end, I was blasted back by some divine barrier. "What...?"

This may be difficult for you to understand... but you cannot enter here.

"But! My baby's in here!" I cried out, hoping that the voice just didn't know, forgetting that the voice already knew that.

I know, I placed your sweet daughter here... but you must understand. As a canine, as my prodigal creation's companion among other things, you are automatically granted eternity here, but that does not keep you from the punishment of your own sin.

Suddenly, a shock of cold pulsed through me, and I felt despair. "What does this mean? There is supposed to be no pain in Heaven..."

Take a look at yourself as well as your life from back when you had it, you are here because of the gift of your species, nothing more I am pained to say.

"....So... I'm never going to meet my baby?"

Never is quite a long time.

I felt a sting in both my eyes and chest. "I'm a bad dog... just say it... I deserve it..."

As I looked upon the hidden barrier keeping me from my daughter, I saw my luminescence fade, no wings appearing on my back and my eyes fading to nothing but a glowing gold.

There is goodness in you... but you ultimately chose your path.

My ears drooped and I settled on four paws, head hung. I dried my eyes, noticing myself becoming more primal by the second.

As I walked away, I couldn't help but revisit every single moment of my life, every second now visible to me. How could you be good in Bloodpool? I don't know why I was so cold, maybe it was just a part of the package. Barred from certain areas, no ability to be warm, my appearance even changed.

I sighed. I wondered how the boys were. They had all passed before me, where were they? What were they doing? Would they even bother with me now that life was done and everyone was equal and free?

As I curled up on the side of a golden street, I felt a twang of gratefulness that I'm a dog... not every Bloodpooliean will get this grace... but still, an eternity without Genesis, possibly without the boys and, for a long time, without Infinite....

Could my Heaven really be so empty?