The Wayfarer

[Kauket]

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Silence ensued. Witnessing his face reminded him of the man he once was. The scrawny nerd. In a way, her heart dropped from the nostalgia, missing Vincent, staring at his hollow self in silence through her mask. The silence was lifted though a broken tone,


"... We're all pawns in the game. Even you - the apathetic 'bystander'. I knew the risks, "Ego" - I knew them. He gave me a chance when everyone else would not. "


She knew that no one was truly on her side, that no one was going to come after me. Years and years of betrayal and abandonment added up to the overall damage of the psyche. A brief unstable cackle was had, shaking her head, undetermined if engulfed by sorrow or mania.

"Oh, and Humanity wouldn't exploit another? Like they did you? Neheheheheheh. He has helped me, and I am grateful for that. He has earned my respect for not becoming the snake that every other Human aspires to be. You have yet to give me any aspirations or purposes to resist him."

Her arms began to resist, trying to pull on the binds that held her in the cell, trying to tire out the energy. But like the machine's power cells, even her stamina drained from the injuries was limited in capacity too.

"Waheheheh, ohhh... You've made many mistakes - so many. " Slowly, she glanced over to the faulty containment cell. "But I will not be the one to pass judgement onto you... "

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