Aelia Aeldyne
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Hayato Yaminen
<Identity confirmed. Individual is Caesar Aphera>
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It was him. There was no point in checking more. His reactions, his body language... Even the warmth he gave off... All of this was his, truly. There was no more doubt I could have. For ten years, I had erred, the world a dark, damp place, my feet trailing in the shallow water of this immense tombstone, without a light to guide me. All I could find was the hollow around and the darkness within. Nothing had taste, no soul had feeling. All there was... crumbling ashes, slowly disintegrating as the light had left me. I lived, but I wasn't alive. I had no one but myself to live for, and I was no one. All I could reach out to was ephemeral smoke, strands dispersing in the void as soon as I grasped them. All I was making was a phantasmal trail in a phantasmal world. Devoid of any and all feelings.
And then the light had been rekindled. Suddenly, the world had depth again. Suddenly, I was no more treading dim chilly waters that made me traceless, but walking into warm still sand, leaving an eternal trail behind me as I ventured forth. Suddenly, I was no more a puppet, a fleshling without will, rising out and slinking back into my grave at dawn and dusk; once more, I felt as a young cub leaving the den to bathe in the sunlight, the comforting breeze blowing on my soul. I could see them - I could see them again, those lights called people. The world felt alight anew, brightened, bettered. I did not care about any other of those lights. Only his, only him. But... their warmth... somewhat appreciable. It staved off the gloom, the melancholy of passing days. But his... It was actually warming me.
It made me feel better, I did not know why. But... I chose not to linger on that thought; I would let go, go adrift in this warmth. I let him embrace me. Maybe I teared up, maybe I cried. Maybe did I hug him back...
<System information. New emotion registered. "Happiness" added to the database.>
Yes... I was happy to see him again, to have him back... My father. My papa.
"Papa..."
Osuka Deathkitten
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