Among Them All

Chapter 6 Ego Ejected

As everyone's priority was figuring out the murder, mine was on another, Cyan. After she ran away, I had to make sure she was alright. She's like a little sister to me. If something happened to her, it would feel like it was my fault. She only opened up to me, and I feel grateful that she gave me that kind of trust. I do not want to lose that, or her.

I decided to go towards the opposite side hoping to run into her. Yet I was still nervous, there possibly could be a killer who isn't us. Maybe someone else on the ship that we just can't see. Hiding away in the shadows of those vents. Maybe we are just too blind to see what is right in front of us. Though as I walked my way into the storage room, the only thing in front of me was Cyan, hiding behind some crates crying her heart out. Her sobs were quiet, but loud enough to be heard in more ways than one.

"Cyan?" I called out for her from the hall's doorway. She kept her head low; the sobs went to sniffles and hiccups. Her eyes barely visible over her knees, they were puffy and red compared to her pale skin.

"Nobody's here..." She mumbled out, bearing her face into her lap once more. I walked over to her, bending down to her level,

"I don't think I know anybody named nobody," I said jokingly hoping to make her laugh. I reached my hand out as if I were trying to shake hers.

"Why are you all the way over here?'' I sighed, putting my hand down. "The crew was called to navigation." She twisted her head to where I couldn't see her,

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

"Hm, washing your face with tears?" I joked once more. Her face jerked up, her cheeks puffed, her eyes swollen from how long she had been crying. The look in her eyes told a sad story, only one thing, no one cared to read it but me.

"Very mature," She mumbled, her eyes slowly batted down. They were heavy, keeping her eyes shut and hidden from the pain in front of her.

"It got you to look up, didn't it?" I half smiled, something had to cheer her up.

"What do you want? Here to give me another life lecture? I get it... I'm not like the others. I scramble to the floor and hide when I am nervous". She finally had let loose; she was so tense. Her body sank into the ground, her head hitting the crate she sat in front of.

"I wanted to make sure you were ok. There was another body found, and I didn't want to see you be the next one..." I said under my breath. I didn't want to scare her, but she had to be told.

"What? Who?" Her body slightly tensed back up, holding her legs together like a terrified child.

"Lime, sadly." The fear in her eyes said enough for me to wish I never brought it up. I wanted her pain to go away. She never asked to be here, but yet here she was. Regretting every decision she made. Regretting stepping onto this ship, that pod. Everyone was dying off, one by one, and here she was afraid that she was next.

"What about the others?" She stuttered out.

"Don't worry about them. I left Purple and-'' I paused only to think what may be going on within that room. Red and Purple possibly fighting. Maybe Green and Pink teaming up. Who knows at this point anymore. I shook out of my trance and back to reality,

"Maybe that wasn't the smartest idea" I said,

"Anyway, but no you aren't like the others. Though that doesn't mean you should hide yourself away from the world." Cyan's head turned away again. Propping her arm up on her legs, annoyed by my presents.

"I said I didn't want a lecture.'' She groaned.

"I know, I know. But for me, that is who I am. I tend to want to help people more than to help myself with my own problems. It is different for you though. You hide yourself to cover up your problems." Her eyes rolled as she sighed from my long discussion,