Acting Grace.
Chapter 3: Cake (3)
23:55.
An eyes looked at the empty night.
“What are you doing?”
Her voice resounded from behind and quickly make it way to his shoulder.
He silently pointed up at the sky.
“Thats wasn’t there before.”
He pointed at a star the only one, in this night sky.
“…It wasn’t.”
“What a coincidence on your birthday too…”
He pulled his eyes away from the light and stared at the abyss.
“…..My birthday? Ah yes, right.”
She chuckled and hugged him.
“Are you ready?”
“?Wha—“
She lifted him up and away from the railing.
“Dinner is ready~”
“W-wait!”
Their voices muffled along with the warm light.
The cane is left there. Alone.
0:00.
Puff.
He blowed the flame candle out, marking his seventh birthday.
He, along side her smiled.
After that warm day one never lit a smile again.
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“There you are buddy sorry for leaving you here all night.”
He picked up the hanging cane and looked up.
“And you’re there as well.”
Amidst the blue sky, one sparked white light flickers.
He silently stared with a look of curiosity but that’s it,
there no way to filled that curious curiosity.
Nor does he want to filled it.
One ambition only limit to oneself and his ambition limit to only himself.
His ambition is only here. No place else.
It’ll never change because he never will.
The light flicker before dimming out.
He turned, avoiding the abyss beside him.
But alongside him, the abyss follow.
“What with that grim face? You’re hungry now aren’t you?”
“Yes… I’m very much hungry.”
He looked into the abyss eye, more, the reflection of another.
“How about fry egg, that’s your favorite.
“Anything you make is my favorite.”
The abysses smiled.
23:55.
He closed his eyes before the light shined through.
Many line of lights crossed his eyes.
The winds blow even stronger, along with his formation.
He, like many other is ambitious.
But what ambitious about, if his heart lied here.
He but not wish to go, he but not wish to leave.
But at the same time. His heart is swelling.
In the second, his heart once filled with void gradually filling with star.
As much as he does not wanted to.
He. Cannot go against nature.
He. Cannot go against his nature.
So. He decided to, just like the cane and himself.
Coexist—
He let it be.
The winds stop.
Maybe that was what it is.
His skin, his eyes and hair.
The Star light and…the abyss.
“Are you happy…?”
The star rampant stop, remain, one candle of flame.
That flame became smoke. Among orange.
0:00.
But just like his change… a letter is slide in front of him.
“what…?”
The decollate fingers pressed against the letter.
And he looked upon the decollate smile, a smile filled with light.
A smile not of nature.
He does but not stared for long.
He reached for the letter and opened it.
[Fel. I will gift this child to your care.
And when he come of age i will come and take him.]
It’s a short letter but silent fell on his mouth nonetheless.
“…”
He’s trying to process.
He’s trying out to process.
0:02.
He tried to open his mouth but closed as quickly as it came.
He look at her rim mouth before its moved.
“This 10 years has been great—more than i could asked for.”
“I know this hard to process… and I’m sorry—“
She suddenly stop—freezes.
Eeekk.
The rim door reached his eyes sight.
And another presence stepped in.
He does not, but stared completely down.
Eeekk.
With the step of phantom still, its took the floors board creak.
Eeekk.
Eeekk.
He trembled as his vision becoming darken.
Eeekk.
A shadow is casted down upon him.
But along…
A sensation is felt on his head.
The shadow is casted aside.
But along came the physical body.
In the form of complete darkness covering his eyes.
“Peeka-Boo.”
And pulled back, his face. And opened his eyes.
Absent of eyes, absent of straight, she smiled upon his tiny fractured face.
