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Red Skys and Royal CardsWe haven’t seen Sky since she spoke to us of our past. Since she learned just where it is we came from and what we did, at the most basic of details, to become who we are today. I didn’t want her to learn about us the way she did. I didn’t want her to find out just how aggressive and dangerous we are able to be when she saw what the others did to that Royal’s Warrior. I didn’t want her to find out our past from a book that fully explained the horrible things we did.
She gave us the choice to tell her what happened in that dark past of ours when we wish too, and for that I am thankful. But I don’t think I’ll ever be ready to tell her what I did. Like the others, I have blood on my hands. Blood I took glee in spilling.
I don’t want her to see me as a murderer. I don’t want her took look at me with fear or disgust over what I did all that time ago. I’m sure at some point she will hear the stories as the others tell her about their past because it was rare we were not together as a group. I just can’t tell her about it now, not yet.
Suho had gone to see her an hour ago after D.O had made dinner and she had not come out. Chanyeol’s phoenix had come a while before and it refused to listen to him before the flaming bird flew from the house. Kris’ dragon had flown into the room shortly after Suho disappeared and lay on the couch behind the stoic looking owner. I had the feeling she was speaking with him but since Kris gave no indication or response I could be wrong.
“Is something bothering you, Kai?” I heard Chen ask as he took a seat beside me on the floor near the fireplace.
I shook my head. “No more than the others.”
He hummed, “Well that’s good I guess. I’m worried though, what if she refuses to come out and see us?”
I sighed. I worry about the same thing, but I have to trust that she won’t. She didn’t seem to hate us and want nothing to do with us when she asked us to leave her be earlier in the day. I’m sure she’s just sorting through her feelings is all.
“Yeah.” I breathed as I looked over at Chen. “Give it time, she’ll come down when she’s ready.”
Leaning back on the balls of his palm her tilted his head up to the ceiling, watching the light that flickered above him. “I guess that’s all we can do. I’ve been thinking, though, about sharing something from my past with her. She deserves to at least know something that still affects me to this day.”
So much happened in those years before everything ended for us and we become Warriors. “What are you thinking of telling her?” I asked him, truly curious what he was going to reveal if he got the chance to do so.
The light above Chen flickered a few more times before it went out completely with an audible fizzzt. A sigh slipping from his lips as he tore his gaze from the burnt out light bulb.
“You know how I hate the sound of roaring thunder even though it’s a byproduct of the lightning I control and create?” He asked me softly.
“Yeah, what of it?” I pressed.
He clutched at his head softly, his fingers twining through his hair grasping at the strands. “There’s a reason I don’t like it. There’s a reason I block it from my hearing range when storms occur. It’s the one sound I can control whether or not I hear it and I am grateful for that.”
I’d never noticed my friend hated the sound so much. I figured he heard enough of it over the years that it was an annoyance every time he played with the electric surges in the sky. It never crossed my mind that he actually hated the sound enough to stop himself from hearing it.
I didn’t want to read into his actions, but my brain proceeded to do so anyway. I had the distinct impression that Chen not only hated the sound of thunder, but feared it as well.
“What happened? Why do you not like it, Chen?”
He removed his hands from his hair and pushed himself from the spot beside me. “I don’t want to get into it. Like you, Kai, I’m not ready to face my past. Not yet.”
I sighed in understanding and watched as he walked off towards the kitchen, his fingers twitching at his sides and the lights flickering around him slightly from the electrical surges he was no doubt producing subconsciously.
“Has Suho come down yet?” Lay asked as he strolled into the room. “I need to speak with him.”
“They are still speaking.” Nyx replied as she looked around Kris’ shoulder at him. “They will come down when they are finished.”
“Be silent, Nyx.” Kris muttered.
“I am leaving.” Nyx hissed as she took off of the couch.
Growling in his throat Kris shot up off the couch. “Get back here.”
Ignoring him, she beat her strong black wings and flew from the room. The startled exclamations from the others in the kitchen filled out ear before D.O came out, his face twisted in displeasure.
“You, Kris, are going to clean the scorch marks your dragon left on the walls.” He spat. “No arguing, not speaking. Just move and clean. Chanyeol is cleaning what his stupid bird burnt, it’s your turn now to join him.”
“Nyx, you better have a damn good reason for pissing D.O off.” Kris grumbled as he went to do as D.O asked him. From the fire in D.O’s eyes going against him now wasn’t going to end well. Self-preservation was a good quality to have and when D.O was involved it was extremely alert.
“Start snickering and you’ll help them, Kai.”
I held my hands up in surrender and sealed my lips to not anger him more. It’s best we don’t get into any fights between us, not now when that could push Sky even farther from us.
“I really need to speak with Suho.” Lay grumbled as he took the seat Chen previously occupied beside me.
“Anything I can help with, Lay?” I asked when he made no move to leave or continue speaking.
Lay shook his head before running his fingers though the silky strands. He huffed and his shoulders deflated. “I have no idea, Kai. I’m trying to test out my bond with her, feel her core but I’m not getting any resistance. I can feel her through my bond but like what we feared, her core ha
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