[PRP] Checkup (Pax/Rabbit/Kids)

[shibrogane]

"I loved my friend," said Pax. It sounded fuzzy on the details. "He was like a father to me. But he had to be stopped. I wish we had fixed it better." It looked away from the sirens, up to Rabbit. "I wish we had fixed it better," it repeated. "I wish we had kept all of you safe."

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

And then the smile faded again. Weren't they safe now? Hadn't they made their own safety with what they'd done?

"We're not? I'm, um..." Rabbit kept his voice low and steady, despite his shaky breathing. Like he was talking to, well, a deer. "What did you do to fix it? Do you know why it wasn't good enough?"

shibrogane

 

[shibrogane]

"We made the sigil," said Pax, dizzily. "Heliodora and Adoelle and Jennifer and Michael and Ming. And Jennifer died, and I died, and..."

Its form was beginning to lose its shape.

"...I think I need to go," it said. Its mouth warped with the words.

Smerdle

 

[Smerdle]

Jennifer. Ming. Pax. People from the 80s or hundreds of years ago or all of the above, held together by a sigil that no longer existed. Maybe. Rabbit didn't know, but he was beginning to guess.

"I'm sorry." He would never repeat it enough.

"You can leave," Nev said with a shallow nod, "but try not to go."

Sy simply sat and watched, her eyes focused and intense despite her softening expression.

shibrogane

 

[shibrogane]

Pax gently touched the crowns of the sirens' heads. "Thank you," it said.

Then it disappeared.

Smerdle

and thank YOU, citizen!