A No. 6 fic.
First published October 2020.
Nezumi x Shion, 100 words.
It’s for Shion’s sake, that Nezumi puts his departure in such definite terms: I wander, you remain.
Or, no – Nezumi tells himself it’s for Shion’s sake, but Nezumi is the one who needs things to be definite. He’s scared of Shion overwhelming him – that he’ll be trapped here for Shion’s sake, as he’s been trapped for so long, and pulled in two directions.
On one side destruction, on the other possibility.
Nezumi knows which side he belongs to. Or he knows, rather, which one he wants Shion to belong to.
What Nezumi speaks comes true.
He wants to believe that.