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07-17-2016, 12:44 PM
z è k l è And just like that, Zero's last hopes were crushed. "Oh," he whispered slowly, softly, that single syllable holding the weight of a hundred nights of praying, a hundred days of searching for the shadow of a sign that maybe, maybe, Ampere was going to come home. "Okay. No. She didn't." Zero stared at the ground through uncharacteristically somber silver eyes, too absorbed the the bleakness of this news to notice Mesec's rising alarm. He didn't blame Mesec. Not at all. Zero was still too naive to understand the strange complexities of his mother's relationships, and even if he had- well, Zero was far too busy blaming himself to even consider shifting that guilt. It was firmly lodged, a selfish thing, the emotions of a child too wrapped up in himself to consider that maybe his Ma had loved something more than him- enough more, in fact, that the pain of it could drive her away from him. Maybe it was good that Zero was selfish. In a way, it protected him from greater pain. At the sound of his voice the boy's head snapped up, a reflexive smile at the ready as he prepared to deliver his usual It's fine, I'm sure she's just off on a really important mission, she'll be home soon. But the smile died as he caught Mesec's strained expression, the panic in his friend's eyes- "Mesec, are you okay?" the boy asked slowly, a sudden fear rising in the back of his throat. Despite Lucius' attempts to deter him, and Common Sense's nagging message of hey man, you were just told to walk away and last time Mesec did this he became a giant monster thing, so maybe we should listen, Zero did not budge. Well, no, he did- he walked toward Mesec, a stubborn expression on his dark face, anger and fear flaring up in his chest. "No!" the lightning boy exclaimed foolishly, "I'm not gonna leave you! You can't make me go away, Mesec! You can't." Because last time he'd run away, his Ma had disappeared; and there was no way he was gonna let Mesec do the same thing. No. Way. |
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