first commandment

For him, smiles and death are both things she gave him.It's hard to come by.

But this time, she let him taste the taste of redemption.

So humble, he looked at the gray wall above his head day after day, imagining what should be the direction of the sky.Imagining the place higher and higher than the sky, the place where he used to fly and shuttle with a beating heart.The place where they smiled together when they were not polluted by war, blood and power.

Can not go back.

He lay on his back on the bed, stretching out his pale hand to the ceiling.Occasionally, the eye sockets are a little sore, but the tears have never flowed.

There's no going back, it's too late, it's irreversible.

He thought numbly, beginning to long to forget his name.

Sometimes he wonders, is everything okay with her?What is she doing in the distance?From eight o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock in the evening, he recalled everything he could recall in his mind, everything about her, everything about himself, and everything between them.

The days are tough, but they pass day by day.Gradually, all the fleeting impressions in his mind seemed to be far away from him, and he sat cross-legged on the hard bed in the prison and began to think about who he really was.

He had already spent ten years in prison by then.How long he will survive there, he doesn't know.All in all it was silent.

But that day was a little different from before.

Hearing the sound of small footsteps, he looked away from the wall above his head.Subconsciously using his keen sense of hearing, he turned his gaze to the direction of the sound source.

The outside of the shadowed cage is like the surface of the sea in the middle of the night, melancholy and unknowable, as gray as a layer of tulle, covering the darker part in the depths.

However, the calm sea was different from the past and was suddenly broken.

A girl slowly emerged from the darkness.Like a pale ghost drowned in the sea of ​​memory, rising from the depths of that sea, reappearing before his eyes.

And she who stood quietly at the other end of the cage had the same face as her old friend.So much so that the blood in his whole body froze the moment he saw her face.

so similar.

The girl in a floral skirt, who looked no more than eight|nine years old, was looking at him calmly.That calm expression looked like an adult.They stared at each other like this, and time seemed to stand still.

"Hello."

She spoke first.Seeing his surprised expression, she suddenly broke into a smile.

In an instant, he felt his heart be shaken violently.

Because it was an all-too-familiar smile, appearing on an all-too-familiar face.However, at this time, he also regained his sanity. After calming down, he found that there were differences between them with the help of the faint light.

Her short blond hair was slightly lifted and hung down on her pink cheeks, her arms were round like a child's, and her porcelain white skin showed a cool-toned luster under the halo of shadows.She looked at him with big cat-like gray-green eyes, and there was an emotion in it that he couldn't read.The person he once admired had an eternal light hidden in the eyes of the same color, just like her belief; while the eyes of the child in front of him had a lot of dodging and suspicion, his eyes were like candles flickering in the night wind.

"Do you know who I am?"

Seeing that he didn't speak, she tried to take a few steps forward and asked.There is childishness in the tone.

He shook his head numbly, although he already had a rough guess in his heart.

"Ah, no one told you about me." She turned her face away, showing a rather disappointed expression.This move makes people wonder if she is a girl who thinks the world revolves around her.

"...no one will come here, so no one will tell me."

He was a little surprised when he heard his own voice.The voice didn't sound like his own, it was light and ethereal, like a sigh blown away by the wind.It is also like a drop of ink falling into the water to dilute and disperse.And after he explained something like this, the girl turned her gaze back to his face.

"But, Srain Troyet..." She looked at him and said suddenly, "I know who you are."

"Who told you?" He sat up straight and asked, "Who brought you here?"

He thought of many things in an instant, and the tone of his questioning couldn't help but become more urgent.

The little girl seemed to be stopped by the question, and couldn't answer him for a while.She looked down at her feet, her little white leather shoes were spotless.

After deliberating for a long time, she spoke with difficulty.

"...I don't think this is right."

"What do you mean?" He couldn't understand, so he frowned and asked back.

She raised her head and looked at him in a panic, as if frightened by his strong tone and the sharpness in his eyes.After being stunned for a few seconds, she suddenly turned around and ran away quickly.

And without thinking, he jumped off the bed and chased him to the railing.

"Wait a minute!" He stopped it aloud.

This call to stop really worked.The little figure who was running towards the exit suddenly stopped, and then slowly stopped before returning to the depths of the sea.She looked back at him with a terrified expression on her face.

He tried to force a smile, but it turned into a bitter smile.He said:

"Let's talk about something else."

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The girl sat across from him, keeping her head down for some reason.The two barely chatted sentence after sentence.

"So, what's your name?" he asked.

Her emotions calmed down, and she put on the calm expression of an adult at the beginning.

"I'm Flora Weiser... No, you should know about it later."

She looked at him.

"After all, I am so similar to my mother."

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BGM of this chapter: GlassySky - Donna Burke

The synopsis is from the lyrics.

Lyrics (from Du Niang): Howmanydayshavepassedlikethis?

how much time passes by

this city, the crowd

isfadingmovingon

Displaced and faded in the hustle and bustle of the city crowd

Isometimes have wondered

where you've gone

I often wonder where you've been

storycarrieson

lonely, lostinside

the end of the story

lonely heart lost

I had this dream so many times

This dream has come many times

the moments we've vespent has passed

and gone away

The time of dependence is gone

could that bean end to this

what I'm feeling deep inside

When will the nothingness gradually sinking into decay come to an end?

you know there's no looking back

You should understand that there is no shore to look back

glassyskyabove

glass void above

as long as I'malive, you will be part of me

If I let you live and die together for the rest of my life

glassy sky the cold

glass void twilight cold

the broken pieces of me

i'm broken

themysteryofitIrecall

I recall its mystery

some leave the truth would change the way we fall

Legacy real tampering falling track

Ididn't want to hurt you, hope you know now

May you understand that I never meant to hurt you

empty promises, shut the dreams of love

Empty promises shatter the illusion of love

sometimes I wonder what's beyond

Occasionally, the road ahead is at a loss

Itried many times to make it up to you

tried to make up for

cansomebodytellmewhattodo?

who tell me what to do

thought it meant to be, there's no going back

God's will is doomed to look back without shore

time has ready come

time has passed

Sun has gone and no more shadows

The morning sun disappears and the aftermath is hard to find

can't give up I know

and this life goes on

I know I can't let go of this life and go on

I'll be strong, oh

i will be so strong

I'll be strong, till I see the end

I'll be so strong till I see the end

glassyskyabove

glass void above

as long as I survive, you will be part of me

If I let you live and die together for the rest of my life

glassy sky the cold

glass void twilight cold

the broken pieces of me

i'm broken

glassyskyabovecoversoverme

overme

The void of glass envelops me

keep me away.