{ KI }
The world is dark. Scratch that, it's pitch black but the lights within us are glaring. I luckily looked away from the lightning, although my fire wasn't as lucky.
"Ki??"
"Shh hey, I'm here, Aht. I'm here."
Holding him close, my arms wrap around him. He breathes in my hair shakily and is blinded for a time. Sweet Aht... The moment he can see me, he kisses me with gratitude.
I glance around. "What's happening?"
"I don't know. What did she mean by Their command—AAHHH!"
Booming.
Massive.
Loud.
So loud.
"AHT!"
Everything is shifting. Pulsing...
We embrace each other as chains, closing each other's ears from this awful, damning sound. I can't even hear my own heart. My shouts are barely heard.
"Make it stop," he pleads. "Please make it stop."
...
It does stop. The dark world flashes tumultuous colors, rendering us disoriented. Those colors assemble in one spot, leaving the world to fall into shadows once again. From that spot, comes out...?
Faces. Shifting faces.
Aht stares at them and buries himself in the crook of my neck. My breaths are fogging. The faces move and solidify while the world slowly brightens up.
Same world. Different dimension. Similar to the space where spirits hold their meetings. The bodily sensation and the muffled silence are thinner here. Hollower. Colors burn through the stars and planets as golds, purples, and indigos. Black voids are tinged in faint green.
Those faces take shapes and eventually separate into five people in front of us. But they're not people, they are...
"Automatons," I whisper.
One of them... waves hi? "This is how you greet, right?" they ask the other.
"I think... so." The second one blinks languidly.
The third one says, "Yes, it's the correct way to do for people nowadays."
These automatons... I don't feel any usual spirit auras from them. Instead, their spirit auras feel—
"Told you I'm not that ancient!" The first one springs on their feet.
"You've been dead for almost two thousand years," the fourth one quips. "That's bloody ancient."
The last one pipes up, "And I taught you how to greet!"
"All of you are humans?" Aht questions.
"Were humans, to be exact."
"So... You all are Their Highness?"
Whoa! All of them cry out in dismay. The fourth scolds, "We're not Them. Never have and never will. It's insulting to assume—"
"They didn't know. Calm down." The third pats their metal hand.
"Why automatons?" Frowning, Aht scrutinizes their forms.
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Damnation Of Devotion ✔
Paranormal"I would've prayed for Them to go easy on you too." He moves and his eyes are on me, eyes where they are brimming with tears, but his soft smile confuses me. Gently caressing my temple, he gazes at me as if I'm the most delicate treasure. His lips k...
