11-08-2021, 05:19 PM
Sickle watches Malik shiver and then begin to sweat and she is so confused, so overwhelmed and uncertain, she has no idea what to do. If they were younger, if this was still the Malik that she had grown up with, she wouldn’t hesitate to close the gap between them and offer comfort. But she doesn’t know who he is now, doesn’t know what’s going on because he only mumbles pieces of words in response to her first question and Sickle feels like she’s going to explode from the confusion of it all.
It makes her want to run away - which makes so little sense because she’s finally where she’s been wanting to be for (what feels like to her) so long.
Something seems to solidify in him and he meets her gaze. The second question she asked doesn’t come with a mumbled response and she almost wishes it had. Her eyes widen and she stares at him, a confusing mixture of joy and jealousy and uncertainty choking her so that her question is little more than a handful of squeaked out breaths. “We have a sister?”
He said Mazikeen had been nicer to that sister but… but a sister.
They replaced her.
Sickle’s eyes are swimming with tears again, the shock of everything and how it could still hurt rising up. She shakes her head and takes an unconscious step backwards. “I don’t know… ever since you were taken I’ve been trying to get you back. Wanting to be older and braver and stronger so I could go to Hyaline. And now... Now you’ve had a whole other life without me. The home we grew up in doesn’t really exist anymore, even if you did remember it. Wishbone is missing… ” A sob interrupts her words and she closes her eyes shut like somehow that’ll make things alright just like it did when she was little.
“I don’t know what to do now, Malik.”
It makes her want to run away - which makes so little sense because she’s finally where she’s been wanting to be for (what feels like to her) so long.
Something seems to solidify in him and he meets her gaze. The second question she asked doesn’t come with a mumbled response and she almost wishes it had. Her eyes widen and she stares at him, a confusing mixture of joy and jealousy and uncertainty choking her so that her question is little more than a handful of squeaked out breaths. “We have a sister?”
He said Mazikeen had been nicer to that sister but… but a sister.
They replaced her.
Sickle’s eyes are swimming with tears again, the shock of everything and how it could still hurt rising up. She shakes her head and takes an unconscious step backwards. “I don’t know… ever since you were taken I’ve been trying to get you back. Wanting to be older and braver and stronger so I could go to Hyaline. And now... Now you’ve had a whole other life without me. The home we grew up in doesn’t really exist anymore, even if you did remember it. Wishbone is missing… ” A sob interrupts her words and she closes her eyes shut like somehow that’ll make things alright just like it did when she was little.
“I don’t know what to do now, Malik.”
@Malik