Clouds against the starry sky - Sett x Soraka

Chapter 6

"Ughhh." My head hurt as I opened my eyes. I saw the pictures I had seen before on the wall and wanted to stand up to take a closer look at them, but I felt a bit too weak for that. After taking a deep breath I healed myself and smiled a little as it filled me with warmth. Then I sat up and looked at the pictures again. The little boy had to be Sett and the woman was his mother then, but why were the eyes of his father crossed out? My fingers wandered over the wooden picture frame and I remembered the story Aurelion Sol had told me about Sett's childhood. Bullying and his father had left. No wonder his life had taken such a rough way. I sighed and looked at the pictures a little longer.

"Finally awake, beautiful?" He grinned at me. I turned around at looked at him. Calling me beautiful was really weird, but making him mad at me surely wasn't a good idea, so I didn't say anything about it. "Yeah... Sorry about before." He still grinned. "No problem little unicorn." "Wha-" My cape laid on the floor and my horn and wings were uncovered. I should have hidden them, even under my cape. I put on my cape immediately and covered myself in it. Great job Soraka, failed being anonymous after a few days. Great.

"I don't know if you knew but usually unicorns don't have names like "Lucy" do they?" He winked and leaned against the door. I swallowed loudly. "I-i..." He laughed. "C'mon, just tell me. Won't change anything." "I'm..." I took a deep breath and thought about a lie, but I couldn't think of a name that would fit. "...Soraka..." He looked at me sceptically, then nodded. "Aight." I couldn't believe that was all. No questions. Nothing. Just "Aight". Surprisedly I looked back at him, then looked at the pictures again. "We're at your place, aren't we?" "Yes, we are." He walked up to me and I could feel his warm breath in my neck. "Why are your dad's-" "Hey beautiful, don't. As long as you don't ask questions, I don't too." He turned me around and looked into my eyes. "K?" I nodded and looked at the floor. "K."

He went to the door and opened it to let some fresh air in. I took a deep breath. Looking into his eyes made me feel very very weird. "S-so... was that your world...? Do you want  to see mine now?" He laughed out loud. "Oh please, there's much more to show you. Don't stress, k? You'll have your chance to show me your side early enough." "Okay.."

I took a deep breath and followed him outside, where we went through some street until we reached a marketplace I had never known before. A big bank was there and Sett grinned at me. "How much stamina do you have?" I swallowed loudly and looked at him. I didn't know what to respond, so I just followed him as he went into the bank's direction and entered it.

Inside he hid behind a corner and grinned at me. "Wait, you don't-" He told me to stay quiet and follow him, so I did. We sneaked through the bank without anyone noticing us until we reached the room in the farest corner. It led to a big safe and I saw how Sett opened it without anyone seeing it. No alarm turned on and I started shaking. He entered the safe and put some Gold into his pockets, then grinned at me. "C'mon, we gotta hurry." I felt very uncomfortable about this, but I still did as he said. I put Gold into my pockets and he closed the safe carefully, then we ran out of the bank.

The bank's security guard saw us running and yelled, then ran after us. Sett took one of my hands and ran away laughing. He laughed too because of the adrenaline and as soon as we got away from the security, we stopped behind a corner and laughed out loud. He grinned at me as I was taking deep breaths and counted the Gold in his pockets. As I started breathing more calmly I was surprised that my guilt went away so quickly. "Was fun, wasn't it?" I nodded. Maybe he was right when he said that he wasn't unhappy with his life after all.