She understood the feeling and need to depart as soon as possible, but didn’t pursue the subject. After she joined her sworn enemies, Caterina had nothing to look forward to but their destruction. Having to live a quiet existence here, trapped away from afterlife if she were to die slowly by the disease that consumed her was not too pleasant thought. It didn’t matter if she earned Hell for every selfish choice she took as long it was a road that would bring the world an actual future.

This is my atonement, Alec...

Caterina closed her eyes briefly, and then looked at the young man who asked her about her world. “It is a world that has lost many important possessions, including the historical records of the past before the Armageddon.”