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Suburban Drifts, Cycle.. 112.
I don’t even know why Saint decided to go here, of all places, all OTHER Places, Sure, it wasn’t uncommon for her to suddenly turn in a direction and sprint off like I used to when I was delivering that refraction cell to moon, Without you, it felt way colder than it should be.
Rivulet could only pant and wheeze considering how far he ran, and ran, and ran, even managing to somehow outrun the cold that was supposedly going to put an end to his suffering, but yet, he still managed to run, so he ran, finally, after so many minutes.. a hour? He didn’t even care to count the seconds or anything to even know how long he was running..
He didn’t even know why that out of all places, She decided to run away here, it was like the worst possible place to be instead of simply at least talking to him, the both of them could of at least done something about her state of mind, right?
Running, forcing himself to ignore the fact that the more he ran his legs were threatening to give out, like the air of his lungs was always on the brink of just knocking itself out instead of how it goes normally, but now, finally, after so long, short, or how much it took..
Saint was here, despite everything, being in front of him, ..with her back turned to him like she didn’t even realise he was even there.
He finally slowed down to normal pace, gasping a little as he began to approach, the lenses of his goggles had even frosted over a little as he lifted them off his face and onto his head as he waved a hand, as if she’ll even feel the wind and realise he was there.
“ Saint! Hey! “
Rivulet yelled into the cold air, ..Usually she’d flinch or almost trip and turn to.. quote on quote, “LOOK” at him with closed eyes, as if she could actually see, despite essentially having eyes closed as if glue was present in between her eyelids twenty four-seven.
Saint gave no response, not even a single reply or at least something to let him know if she even did notice him.
Rivulet walked up, only shaking slightly due to a sudden burst of wind, as if he wasn’t already slowly becoming uneasy about what he was doing, but managed to gather the courage, he wasn’t going to be scared anymore, before he reached out his hand and attempted to shake Saint out of whatever thoughts had her stuck in place.
“ Saint?- “
He was suddenly cut off by being pushed back, letting out a gasp in response as he fell onto the snowy, metallic ground as he looked up, hands holding him up from actually falling completely to the ground, then suddenly seeing Saint’s expression that looked more eerily resigned and grieving something he didn’t know, his leg instinctively twitching a little in this position as if he was going to be dragged to hell or something.
Rivulet was already opening his mouth to even try and respond, question her on why she’d just immediately push him back as if she thought he was a threat, but it was obvious she didn’t, before suddenly having the equivalent of a crosshair pointed directly at his face, his pupils had already shrunk in terror.
He could only see the X part of the symbol that has suddenly been pointed at him, and of course, it deeply horrified him, both in the past, and like as if it was pointing at his soul, the deepest parts of his soul, his life had already flashed before his eyes as he hadn’t even realised he had got up to run away on instinct.
Rivulet was already running, unable to bring himself to say anything as he was too focused on running away from whatever that thing is, his eyes shaking as if he was on the verge of tears, ..He’s fast enough, Rivulet is always the fastest out of everyone, He can-
PANG!
His ears were already ringing as he felt multiple sharp jolts of pain go through his body from his leg as he suddenly tripped over, tears already streaming down his face in horror, glancing behind him at the person who did something unimaginable, he didn’t even know how to think of it.
Rivulet let out the littlest of a whine, coughing as he finally looked at his leg, ..no, what was left of it, there was blood gushing everywhere and spilling out from the stump of what was left of his leg, as pain began to course through his nerves, as blood squirted from his injury as his eyes widened, shaking as he bled from the fact his leg had just gotten blown off by.. He couldn’t bring himself to think of it highly anymore.
Rivulet stared finally looking up at her, her eyes was now open with two, no, five glowing eyes looking down at him with a unreadable expression he didn’t even want to read himself, before gasping and already crying, coughing up blood before just suddenly letting out a loud scream, like a scream of pain he had never experienced before as blood poured onto the ground from his leg, already attempting to start crawling away as much as he could from this Thing..
” S-SOMEONE! ANYONE..! ..MONK! HELP M-
PANG!
All of a sudden, in place of Rivulet’s head, a fountain of blood replaced it, gushing everywhere and splattering the ground similar to a paint bucket being spilled over, or also like a unholy hose being used to shoot out and squirt out blood from what was left of his body, as the blood slowly stopped flowing from his neck and his destroyed leg, leaving a large puddle of thick blood below him, and the slightest of tears he could shed before his fate, his destiny, wasn’t it?
..And so, He was at peace, ..Right? before she could stop herself from getting off track, She slowly walked up, slightly splashing the blood, ..there was a considerable amount of blood if it managed to even match a water puddle, before she slowly sat down and laid down beside him.
Saint decided to lay there for a while, she did have a lantern after all, as she slowly wrapped her hand around his, intertwining the cold, numbing fingers he now had with hers as she laid there, staring into the sky with what was left of one of her lovers, ..in a pool of blood that was staining her clothes in a twisted pattern that could be mistaken for bouquets of flowers.