Fly Until You See The Light

Eden (2) - Chapter 10

«From who?» he just asks while taking the bag in his hands. «Who would write letters to someone like me?».

Teth answers:«Someone who was traveling in the Eden. Me and the others...» she sighs, gives up hiding and returns to her true form of an Elder. That tranformation, however, brings a total emptiness that surrounds them. Elders can't be seen outside of their temple, nowadays. «We stole your friend's letters. She sent two letters to you, but we took them. We wanted to make her stay away from you, but I'm... I'm sorry, Ojtaro».

The boy, who is now sitting in the middle of the nowhere, looks at her with a shocked face. «You did... What...?». He's starting to feel more rage inside of his body, and he doesn't know how to stop it. He's trembling more than before. He thought that Sentinekka wasn't able to write in Eden, while those honking idiots of the Elders cooperated to separate he and his savior.

He just stares at the letters and holds them on his chest with the pendant. He won't let his tears come out now. Even thought they still want to come outside, they already showed theirselves too many times.

«Listen, we didn't know that the girl's death would have been so hurtful for you, we thought that she was just a cruel being, and we all are sorry about this» the Elder continues, but she immediately gets stopped by the boy, who exclaims:«You are the cruel beings! How can you not understand this?! You are the ones who hurted me the most and didn't even realized it!».

He stands up in the nothingness while he barely breaths, and his eyes suddenly see something through that void. Is that a Light? It is, and it's far away.

Teth follows his stare. «That Light is your destiny. It will be good, I know it. Thanks to that girl, you're safe now» she says with a strangely sweeter tone. She's never sweet, and he learned that years and years ago. But she knows well that he knows by memory every Elder's typical behavior. Is she serious, then? Teth could never forget how people see her. She's trying to be kind for the first time in centuries, and it is all thanks to...

Thanks to Sen'.

Only to his beautiful, sweet and sensitive Sen'.

Sen' died in the Eden and the Elders saw how Ojtaro cared about her, how much he loved her despite the one year of knowing, how much he hoped for her return after everything he went through. They saw how the boy who was supposed to have no feelings like his ancestors slowly became similar to the other Children, how he began to be the same thing that the Prince was. And he's definitely better. They noticed it every day, but no one knew how to deal with that. They didn't know how to help Ojtaro escape his prison, but they actually wanted to make him feel good.

The Elders love him, they always cared. He always thought that he was the not listened one, but he is the one who should have listened. And he finally can do it. Where does that Light take? How much time is going away? The time can pass faster in the void, and this is worrying him as hell, but his head continues working like a machine.