Sempiternal: • Savages • || BOOK 6#

38. «Is anyone alive?»

He inhales sharply, sitting up suddenly and looking around What does it sound like?

It's... mechanical.

Suspiciously mechanical. His breathing quickens and he tells himself that maybe he's hallucinating it. It wouldn't be the first strange thing to come out of his mind. However, it's not possible for one simple reason: he no longer remembers what that kind of thing sounds like....

He doesn't remember, in any way, what a helicopter engine sounds like, its propellers breaking the air. He lowers a single leg off the bed. No one wakes up. All sound asleep and fading like early morning mist. He half-opens his lips, his brow furrowed, and looks toward the door.

"It's... false, isn't it? It's fak-"

"Is anyone alive?" Jimin fills his chest with air, his eyes widening. "If anyone hears us, please come out."

English.

They speak in English.

With an accent so strong and so raspy. It sounds so close. Jimin stands up and gets dizzy from it. Leaning against a wall and crawling slowly towards the door. He grabs the doorknob with one of his hands and the murmur reaches his ear.

"Are you going to fall for the same trick again? Do you want to go to another nest?" He holds his breath, tenses and is unable to turn around, feeling Hajun on his back. His warm, huge, stiff body pressed against his body. "Become the female of another Alpha who will not be me" He breaks out in a cold sweat and his expression twists, his eyes watery and chest tight, "and who will be sure to kill them." he concludes in a whisper.

Jimin sits slowly on the floor, in front of the door that seems to be brighter than ever.

"Is anyone alive?"

He groans and covers his mouth What if they are not real? What if they are really fooling him? They mimicked Jungkook's voice before, the voice of all of them. Even if they don't fully understand what it means, they understand enough. It could be a trap. The biggest one of all and if he opens the door, he would be the cause of the worst tragedy that can happen to him.

"You can open the door" He looks to the right, where Leeseung is sitting. He looks at the door equally. For the first time in a long time, dressed like a military man. The highlight is the gunshots all over his body. He turns to Jimin. The shot in the forehead drips blood. "And risk this end."

"You can not open" says Hajun on the other side, Jimin slowly turns to him, still with his mouth covered. "And be female again. No arms. No legs. Just female who will have many cubs."

He begins to whimper in despair. The footsteps and voice trails off. He squeezes his eyes shut, curling forward and ruffling his dirty-white hair. Hajun and Leeseung on either side to remind him of the worst possibilities.

With the small difference being.

"Or you can have faith that it will be something good."

He looks at Leeseung again, sobbing. The soldier smiles weakly, tenderly at him. Just like he was before everything went wrong. Before he went mad. Those moments of kindness compiled into this image he's seen of him for so long. Leeseung pats him on the back gently.

"You are strong. You can do it." he promises softly and Jimin looks at the door again.

He doesn't hear anything anymore.

There is nothing.

Just silence.

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