I'll leave my love hidden in the sun
Some lingering vestige of pride, of stubbornness, saw the girl's shoulders stiff and unwieldy under Hotaru's comforting embrace. What stray remark had made her believe compassion to equal weakness she could never say, but the notion was there all the same. Maybe it was the look on Nate's face when she failed to hold back her tears.
Maybe it was the knowledge that her compassion meant nothing, when hers would be the fangs to rend flesh and slake lives.
"Is that true for committing genocide too? Will we be less guilty, if we make it quick for them...?" Haunted eyes stared not at the rabbit, dead and lost beyond salvation. No, these stargazer eyes were looking at something much further away. And what she saw...
With a shuddering sigh, Seren closed her eyes and buried her face against Hotaru's shoulder. What they were about to do - what was to say it would not spark the flames of that horrible, dark, bloody future?
"I'm scared," Seren whispered hoarsely.
Maybe it was the knowledge that her compassion meant nothing, when hers would be the fangs to rend flesh and slake lives.
"Is that true for committing genocide too? Will we be less guilty, if we make it quick for them...?" Haunted eyes stared not at the rabbit, dead and lost beyond salvation. No, these stargazer eyes were looking at something much further away. And what she saw...
With a shuddering sigh, Seren closed her eyes and buried her face against Hotaru's shoulder. What they were about to do - what was to say it would not spark the flames of that horrible, dark, bloody future?
"I'm scared," Seren whispered hoarsely.
For when the darkness comes
SEREN
