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am I more than you bargained for yet?
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Ma?
It hurts, Ma.
Mama, make it stop.
It was good, being unconscious. Zero tried to hold onto it as tightly as possible, that black unawareness, the safe happy place where it was him and Ma and everything was ok. He clamped his eyes against the world, against the brightness and the fear. He didn't want to be afraid anymore. He had been very afraid, and it had not been fun, and now he didn't want to wake up again.
He was waking up again. His brain was fuzzy, full of moths and cotton and rocks (shock, he'd find out later, and that was why it didn't hurt so bad. Yet.). Rocks. Squishy. Where was Squishy? And Mesec, what about his wing? And Iso and Gaucho and was Ma even breathing? Was everyone else dead? Panic raced into his mind, his body, and he tried to push himself upright but he was stuck underneath something and something was stuck beneath him and it hurt so much why couldn't he move?
Ma, where are you?!
He had never been the cleverest child, preferring trial and error to logical thought. The events of the day were evidence of that: how could a boy who threw himself off a ledge be considered smart? Brave, maybe; foolish more likely- but no, he certainly wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box.
Just the one with the most interesting name.
So when it didn't work the first time he struggled again, his body flailing desperately, pain shooting up his single wing, hurting and burning so much oh god make it stop, a scream rising from terrified lips as Zero struggled with the consequences of his foolishness, and was introduced to the world's unforgiving nature for the first time. Questions ran unstoppable through his mind. Where were his friends? Where was he? Was his other wing gone, too? Tears surged down his cheeks; he was frightened, so frightened, caught beneath that blanket of dark, trapped in a world of infinite night, lost and alone and in pain and... and...
"M.... Ma... it hurts. Make it stop."
Edit to clarify: Zero is stuck under the tiger pelt. That's why he's flipping out.
