Glassy Sky - You're Born for Me -

Fragment No. 7

A/N : Dumping all I can in case I really can't update after tomorrow. ^^"

This is still in Bright POV na~

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A 6 years old Bright is walking slowly on the long corridor, crying alone. The globs of water fall from his teary eyes, a hiccups could be heard in the bright light corridor. He feels so alone right now, as he just got scolded by his governess. In this big crystal palace, instead feeling warm inside, the walls that surrounding him feel hard and unforgiving.

He almost crashed into somebody, but he noticed their big foot so he stops. If the governess found out he broke a rule again, she would be very angry with him. So he looks up, intending to apologize. The man in front of him is a tall one, with a cold blank face. But somehow, he can see a gentleness in his eyes as the man stares down at him.

"Why are you crying?" the man asked him. Bright avert his eyes, not wanting to make trouble. But there's another man behind the one who asked him, smiling encouragingly.

"..The governess scolds me." He answers honestly. The man in front of him tilts his head a little bit to the right.

"And pray tell, why she is scolding you?"

Bright bits his lips. "I just want to play. But she said that I shouldn't play on the ground because it's filthy. I have.. I have to uphold the dignity of my family name." He pursed his mouth. He doesn't understand much about what the governess was talking about. The only thing that he understands is he is not allowed to play. And it saddened him.

He can hear the man sighs and then he tilts Bright's chin upward. "Stop crying." The man telling him. He then proceeds to wipe the tears on Bright's cheek. It makes him nodded his head, obeying the older man.

"Hang tight." Is the only warning the man told him before he gripped Bright's shoulder, Bright can see that there's a mark appearing and glowing from the man's neck to half of the man's face, instantly teleporting them all to the hill outside the city. Bright eyes widened in surprise, as he can see the crystal palace so far from him.

"Woahh! It's the first time I teleport!" he exclaims.

"Did you like it?" the man asked then. The other man only shook his head in exasperation. But Bright doesn't care. He nodded enthusiastically.

"Yes, Phi! Look, the palace is so far away! I can see everything from here!" he blabbers excitedly. He then could see the cold mask melting as a warm smile decorating the man's face.

The man then stood silently beside him, as Bright staring in amazement at the view in front of him. The city look so small!

"Bright." The man call his attention after he is satisfying his curiosity.

"Yes, Phi?" Bright looks up to gaze clearly to the older man. The latter puts his hands behind his back, body straight. Bright immediately wants to imitate him. The posture look so cool in his mind.

"All of it is your playground." The man informs him, staring ahead to the now look like a small city. Bright frowned, though.

"But the governess-"

"Do you understand the rule?" the man cuts him smoothly. Bright ponders for a bit. He knows the rule, but he doesn't truly understand them. It's so complicated.

The man glance at him patronizingly. "It's okay if you don't understand. But every rule has a weakness. And it's fine if you find it and take it for your advantage."