„We're doomed."

Chapter 25

Everyone was out of the hall now, leaving Caul and Myron inside.
Myron wad still holding his brother down, who was trying his best to get up. But both their strength was the same and right now, Myron had the upper hand.
„You idiot! Let me go!!" screamed Caul and tried to use his telekinetic powers, but it only seemed to work on smaller things.
Then Caul kicked his brother in the stomach, causing him to fall back to the ground.
Myron just wanted to get up again, when Caul got up and ran towards him, tackling him with so much force, that Myron crashed into the next wall.
The hall was near to collapsing now, with pieces of the ceiling proceeding to fall down.
Caul stomped over to him and wrapped his hands around Myron's throat, almost choking him.
„Look at us, Myron! Look at us! We finally are what we wanted to be! So, why are you using this power to fight against me? You should be joining me at ruling over peculiardom!" said Caul and looked down at his little brother, while Myron was fighting for air.
„No...I...I don't want this..." Myron was finally able to say. „You want peculiardom...for your own, anyways.."
Caul begin grin from one ear to the other. „Yes, now that you said it. You're right, I don't really need your help to be a king." Then Caul tightened his grip around his brother's throat and Myron was starting to get afraid.
„J-jack...stop..." Myron gasped. „P-please..."
Caul chuckled. „No...I'm going to kill you, now that I have the chance again."
Suddenly, a gruesome grin spread across Caul's face, like Myron has never seen it before.
Myron began to panic and struggled to get himself free, but it was all for nothing. He knew, that, soon, he would be unable to breathe. But then, at least he died for doing something good.
Myron looked into his brother's eyes, the left one covered with dried blood and the right one filled with fury.

Suddenly, Caul relinquished his grip around his brother's throat and Myron sighed in relief. But something didn't seem right about this.
Caul let go and shakily stepped away from him.
Then Myron saw it. Small blackish blue, shimmery tears came out of Caul's eyes.
The tears were starting to get bigger, until they looked like small waterfalls.
Caul flinched slightly as they got in contact with his skin.
Myron carefully got up, while keeping his eyes on his brother.
„What- what is happening to me?..." said Caul, when he saw the tears dropping down to the ground.
„It must be the soul..." whispered Myron to himself, but Caul seemed to have heard it.
„What are you talking about?..." Caul wanted to know and begin to glare at him.
„The soul you consumed back in Abaton. Something is happening to it. Or to you." Myron explained and stepped further away from his brother, just in case something is going to happen.
In the next moment, Caul cried out in pain and sunk to his knees.
Now, there was coming black liquid out of his mouth, which made Myron step back even more.
„W-what?! What is this?! Why is this happening?!" Caul shrieked and then desperately looked over to Myron.
Myron was wondering, if this was going to happen to him too, but that wasn't important right now.
He noticed, that the pieces that were falling from the ceiling were getting bigger and that it might be dangerous, if one of them fell down on him.
So he started to walk to the hole in the wall, where he came from. But he didn't get this far.
Caul grabbed him by his leg and wouldn't let go.
„Let go, Jack! I need to get out of here!" said Myron and gave his brother an angry look.
Even though Caul did not let go of Myron's leg, he was shaking uncontrollably and blackish blue liquid poured out of his mouth and eyes. It was a terrible sight.
„W-we made a promise, right?" Caul began to say. „E-everything we do, we would do t-together. So if I'm going to die..." he paused for a moment and then let out a raspy, little laugh. „You have to die too."
Myron turned around to face him with a confused, but also surprised look on his face. „What?!"
And then, a big brick fell down and hit his head.
The only thing he heard was his brother's terrifying laugh.
He felt himself sinking down to the ground.
Then everything went black.

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(Here's another drawing I made of Caul- this time I designed him more like how he was described in LoS, so basically I have this version and the other version, with those stripes on his body.)