My Ray of Hope

His Other Side

   "What happened was that you formed a contract with a Chain," Break said as he walked from the door to me.

"I know that, but I'm wondering where the Chain went," I look around the room, but nothing, even the cracks in the floor from its sword were gone.

"To tell the truth, not even Pandora can understand where Chains that have formed contracts go while they wait to be summoned," Break says as he extends a hand to me which I take and he pulls me to my feet.

"How do I summon my Chain?" I ask as I look at the necklace that I was holding and saw that the pendant had the same strange engraving as Breaks'.

"Where's the fun in telling you everything? Wouldn't it be better if you found out yourself?" he asks as he sheathes his sword.

I think about Break's question before I answer, "Finding things out for yourself is more interesting and satisfying, but if it means risking my life to find the answer I'd rather be told it."

Break raises an eyebrow to my statement. "But haven't you been risking your life to find out why you were sent to the Abyss?" he asks as starts to pick up the items that fell on the floor due to the previous tremors.

I help him as I start to give my answer, "Well, yes, but escaping the Abyss and finding the answer to my question are two separate things."

"How are they separate things? The way I see it, they are actually one in the same," he looks at me with his usual smile as he finished putting the objects back on the shelves.

"One in the same? I don't it that way," I say as I move in front of the mirror to see my hair all messed up from the encounter with the Chain so I started to fix it.

As i fix my hair, Break takes a seat in one of the chairs at the table in the middle of the room and placed Emily on his lap. He then opened his side bag and pulls a lollipop out, unwrapped it and popped it into his mouth. After he did, he started to explain what he meant, "Because you want to find out why you were sent to the Abyss, you knew you had to escape the Abyss first since there was nothing there to help you, right?"

I finished fixing my hair and walk over to the table, taking a seat across from Break before I spoke, "Are you trying to say that escaping the Abyss was the first step to come closer to the answer I'm looking for?"

When I asked him that he lets out a little chuckle then spoke, "You pick up on things quickly Mia-chan. That was exactly what I was saying."

"So from the very beginning I was risking my life in order to solve everything so what's one more thing," I say as I rest my chin on the table and look at him.

"How do your arms feel?" he asks, changing the subject.

I lift my head up and put my arms on the table to see them still wrapped up. "They were a little sore when I woke up, but they feel fine now," I tell him.

Break places Emily on the table as he gets up and walks around to me. "Let's take a look at them then," he says as he pulls a chair beside me and sits in it.

"Are you sure it's a good idea to unwrap them just because they don't hurt? I was inflicted with these injures not that long ago," I ask as I look at him.

"Do you really think that we would ask you to take the bandages off if you weren't fully healed?" the high pitched doll asks as her arms sway a bit at the other end of the table.

Not surprised by the fact that Emily can move on her own, I answer her question, "No, I don't think you two would do that especially after you helped me so mush. I'm just making sure is all."