- Meanwhile, in an apartment situated within Romes Green district -
Shadows push away the monitor screens light, at the same instance a slow release of air filters across the surface of the desk supporting the vid-screen. News articles and discussion threads based upon certain events often created a flicker of satisfaction. Brief amusement in concentrated periods of intense training.
Satisfaction that progression in retraction, generally speaking, turned up each side of his relaxed mouth. Paper forms that had been neat fluttered in the breeze brought about by a strong, meditated sigh.
All things gone, the dust collecting layer... by layer.
Satisfaction indeed.
An echo from before, his own words, tapped into his mind as clearly as if he, himself, stood alongside him... whispering.
"People disappear from Rubi-Ka all the time..."
Nodding to nothing that uttered something... he used his facial muscles again. The so-called vipers smile. All things done, all things forgotten. Placing palm to palm and placing forefingers to meet to touch the other, lips pursing in a thoughtful glare as the news responses returned to the main entry screen... eyes moved carefully to a collapsed form that continued to huddle against itself.
So much to say.
And no one he could trust or care to share it with anymore. He only had examples to make of others to show others. To prove things to himself that he had been correct all along. Instinct...
... why did he not bathe in instinct that screamed to allow an offering to drown in its wisdom?
Amends will be in his prayers. As would those whom he had already claimed. Public image leech, the mirror being who sought to use both sides in existence in twisted realties, the babe lost in the metal and stone woods... and the torn, self shredded heart. And that heart moved again, watching through his eyes with cold executioners intent... the huddled mass began to sob.
The voices questioned again and again, heard faintly over the increasing volume of the bodies sobbing. Answers would arrive once the fire began. He'd been here before. Another place, another time.
Or was it this time, this place he had been? Or would be? Will be?
Perhaps the answers would find him along the way?