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Post by Silver on Sept 5, 2023 5:48:12 GMT -6
She flopped over on her back to catch her breath and ease her racing mind. She could feel the panic melting out of her body to be replaced with mere exhaustion. Eventually, she regained control of her own thoughts again. Now what would she do? She couldn’t lie here forever, but in the moment, she really considered it as if it were a valid option.
She was going to have to return to the facility. To tell him about everything she had seen and heard. The thought made her rapidly beating heart grow heavy. He wouldn’t understand, she thought. Why did she even care? It’s not like any of those Harachiu in the tree or the two experiments with Kaizen were her friends. In fact, she was pretty sure the opposite was true. If they had Kaizen, then they were enemies. She was sure of it.
Then why…
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Post by Silver on Sept 5, 2023 5:48:25 GMT -6
Tat-cross, short-tail, and even that Terrain. Tenebris couldn’t stand the thought of any of them being harmed. If she told Crowley where they lived, he would tear the whole thing down… or perhaps even worse. She didn’t know what she was going to do, exactly, but she knew that she couldn’t let that happen.
Maybe she could convince some of the others to help her. Someone like Esther, perhaps. Now that she knew where he was, the two of them could go and take Kaizen back. In and out without a word. Crowley didn’t have to know anything about it. All he needed was Kaizen, right? He should be overjoyed to get his experiment back, regardless of the circumstances.
Somehow, Tenebris didn’t think that was true. Even if she could pull it off, she knew deep down in her guts what Crowley wanted. He didn’t just want Kaizen back. He wanted revenge against those who got in his way. He would never be happy until he was able to punish anyone who ever crossed him. The same fate would befall her, were she to turn up empty handed.
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Post by Silver on Sept 5, 2023 5:50:01 GMT -6
She rested in that patch of grass until well after the sun left the sky, carefully considering everything she had just learned. Her mind kept drifting back to the little home, and how everything there seemed so... peaceful. If he came back, Kaizen would never know such peace. She certainly didn’t.
With the moon now high in the sky, Tenebris felt like she had mulled it over enough. She was ready to go back and do what she had to do. Whatever happened after that… well, that wasn’t something she could control. She kept that thought in the back of her mind, just in case she dared to make a last second change of plans.
She let out a heavy sigh as she pulled herself to her feet. On her way here, she had spent so much time psyching herself up, knowing that she may encounter something difficult.
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Post by Silver on Sept 5, 2023 5:52:08 GMT -6
However, it had turned out different than she ever could have imagined or prepared for. She felt like a balloon that had been filled with hot air, only for it to slowly leak back out instead of bursting, and that didn’t make her feel any better. She just felt tired, like the wrinkly overstretched skin of a deflated balloon.
Her trip back to the facility was uneventful. At least she had that to be grateful for. She let herself inside, secretly hoping that Crowley would be asleep and that she wouldn’t have to see him just yet. She wouldn’t be that lucky.
A pair of pure white eyes met her as she slipped into the door. She quickly composed herself, not letting him know that he had startled her with his presence. He was laying on the floor with his paws crossed, looking up at the door intently. It was clear that he had been waiting for her this entire time. Had even moved at all?
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Post by Silver on Sept 5, 2023 5:55:54 GMT -6
His intense gaze burned right through her. Sometimes she felt like he could hear her every thought just by looking at her. He had promised long ago not to probe her mind with his powers, but it didn’t really matter. He knew her so well that he didn’t have to.
Tenebris was tiny compared to the large purple beast, but it wasn’t his strength or his claws that she feared. Disappointing him would incur his wrath, but she wasn’t really afraid of that, either. Much more than any of that, she was afraid of upsetting him. At the end of the day, he was still family. The only one she had.
The question hanging in the air was left unsaid, but she answered it regardless. “He…” she said, her eyes turning to the floor. “He… didn’t make it.”
That was the lie that would set her life on a new path.
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