He looks at her like he truly cannot understand why that is, and maybe he couldn’t. She has always tried to be aware that no matter how human he looked on a normal day, no matter how much weakness and fallible things that looked human she had seen in him, that he was a god…]
You were gone. Just gone from here!
[But it’s not an excuse anymore. How many times has she demanded (begged) him to just tell her before he did things that she would misinterpret as betrayals or insults? To just warn her, just the slightest of considerations? His desert had vanished, his presence and power temporarily gone in death, and she-]
I did not know if you had been killed or simply vanished from this world entirely!
[She has seen it happen, people disappearing as randomly as they’d arrived, and she did not even know if that meant they found a way back to their world or if they fell into a crack and landed in some limbo of nothing.]
Or maybe you decided you were done with me.
[She had wanted to believe that wasn’t true, but how could she not at least consider it a possibility when it felt as if he was gone from where she had grown used to always having him, lurking in some corner of her mind whenever she needed to call on him? He had said only she had the power to sever their bond…
But something had. And she’d had no way to tell if it was death, disappearance, or abandonment, and that-]
I knew nothing, Set!
[And he’d just gone and killer himself? For what? For whom? The edge of the storm finally reaches them, and wailing sleet pelt their bodies with an angry chill as Hayame stands motionless, her black mane and tail whipping in the wind around them.]
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He looks at her like he truly cannot understand why that is, and maybe he couldn’t. She has always tried to be aware that no matter how human he looked on a normal day, no matter how much weakness and fallible things that looked human she had seen in him, that he was a god…]
You were gone. Just gone from here!
[But it’s not an excuse anymore. How many times has she demanded (begged) him to just tell her before he did things that she would misinterpret as betrayals or insults? To just warn her, just the slightest of considerations? His desert had vanished, his presence and power temporarily gone in death, and she-]
I did not know if you had been killed or simply vanished from this world entirely!
[She has seen it happen, people disappearing as randomly as they’d arrived, and she did not even know if that meant they found a way back to their world or if they fell into a crack and landed in some limbo of nothing.]
Or maybe you decided you were done with me.
[She had wanted to believe that wasn’t true, but how could she not at least consider it a possibility when it felt as if he was gone from where she had grown used to always having him, lurking in some corner of her mind whenever she needed to call on him? He had said only she had the power to sever their bond…
But something had. And she’d had no way to tell if it was death, disappearance, or abandonment, and that-]
I knew nothing, Set!
[And he’d just gone and killer himself? For what? For whom? The edge of the storm finally reaches them, and wailing sleet pelt their bodies with an angry chill as Hayame stands motionless, her black mane and tail whipping in the wind around them.]