Doll

           “Ah…..” An embarrassed blush began to show itself on her face, her eyes dropping out of shame. How in the world could she let herself get vulnerable like that? She could just hear it now, her brothers scolding her had they come to find out. She wouldn’t tell them herself, though.

“Thank you very much for helping me. I-I’m really sorry that I was a bit of a bother!” her apology was followed by a short, nervous laugh. She did, however, appreciate this person for really saving her through her sheer embarrassment.

“Uh…” she paused, her eyes going back up to the strangers face. They were certainly acting strange, almost ABSENT in what they were saying. “Are you okay?”

“You are of no bother, you have given no insignificance, nor have you caused issues that you could have played a competent role in”

“Hm?” he turned to look at her this time, eye contact was made as his icy grey eyes stared into hers, unflinching, unblinking, ashen iris’s were certainly unique, not that he knew that.

     This place had innumerable names, given by the monsters that lived outside of it; but for the ones who were familiar with it liked to call it Ruined Home. The child didn’t seem to be aware of why such a name was given, but the cracks on the ancient wall and the ivy that came out of them would make all the doubts fade. A kindhearted beast told her the name of the place who lived at the end of the entire zone; once in a while, he liked to scan the area with the hope to find the umpteenth fallen child.

Mel didn’t answer but left the the name of the area a mystery and focused on the second question made by him, even if there wasn’t much to think about, considering the answer was only one: ❝ – no.❞ Once you’ve fallen down here, it’s impossible to return up there.

❝ … and – who’re you?❞ Questioned the child, curiously, stuttering words out due to her difficulty in communicating with strangers. ❝… y’re not–human.❞

“My identification?” he questioned looking at her dead in the eyes, emotionless and cold hues locked with her own timid orbs “I go by the name Marion, it seems to be the one given to me, though i have little use for names.” he responded bluntly.

“No way out? that will be an issue” he spoke, in a very deadpan tone, as if he was reading off of paper “And no, Human is not a species i identify with” he finished as his body now reattached, he stood albeit mildly unsteady, he closed his eyes and sparks of electricity began to fly around his body for a moment, the air around him heated up before quickly dispersing.

Who could have for-seen things turning out like this, Marion had only wanted to keep out of the public view while he escaped the rubble where he had woken up, in doing so he had entered alley after to alley, only to find what seemed to be a large open area between buildings, and a great many threatening looking people.

A local drug lord by the name of L.T. Sovereign, a very wanted man, not that Marion could have known this, and around the area were several men that worked for him. The cybernetic human was oblivious to the mistake of walking here, and when he looked around and went to turn around as if nothing happened, he found his path blocked by two tall men.

“Looks like you made a wrong turn~” the smuggler stated with calmness, as Marion turned back around to face him, still with an absent expression “Afraid i can’t let you just turn around and go, that would look bad for me” he chuckled.

Marion would only glance at him “I am leaving now” he states, as if he had not heard them, turning back around and trying to walk through the two body blockers, only to be pushed rather forcefully, Marion lost his balance from the assault and fell down, only to stand rather swiftly, but now he found a device pressed to his face.

“Now that was mighty rude of you” he drug lord sneered, “i was gonna let you live, but not now, ill dispose of your body swiftly” 

“-” Before Marion even had chance to respond, a trigger was pulled on the device, a round fired and the side of Marions face was blown off, the sound of the now identified firearm echoed across the town.

         alonsia doesn’t know why she expected just one normal night. she doesn’t know why she thought she could comfortably curl up with a book on her balcony, sip some tea, and relax for a night. why would that ever be a possibility? slowly, she uncrosses her legs, stands up. studies the boy that had just fallen onto her balcony with wide eyes before dropping to her knees to get a closer look. he doesn’t appear to be in pain, so that’s good. she’s just wondering if she’s capable of fixing his arm. maybe there’s a spell for that.

                 ❝ hey, i’m not gonna hurt you, ❞ she starts with that clarification, halting on any touching as she hovers over him.

                 ❝ can i help you? ❞ electricity. no detectable aura. no discernible humanity. she doesn’t know exactly how to handle this.

                 ❝ are — are you in pain? does that hurt you? ❞ her hands are at ready, hovering just above him. shadows shift around her form, at the ready for anything she may need to do.

“..pain..?” His eyes suddenly widened, shock filled his system as his body tensed at a point that looked agonizing, he began to tremble visibly, as something began to fill his mind.

“Don’t worry about the boy, Doctor, he can’t feel pain”

   “But he is screaming sir, you can’t be serious” “Well kill him then, we don’t need him alive for this”    “With all due respect, sir, killing him won’t be easy with what has been done to him” “I don’t care how painful it is or how long it takes, just shut him up”

What were these voices he was hearing, what was going on, he heard voices but there was no sound in the air.

His breathing sped up, he didn’t know what he was feeling, anyone else would recognize this as fear, but him? he had no idea, and that only scared him more, soon he was hyperventilating, the word pain brought so many memories to him, memories he never wanted to remember, memories he didnt understand, his heart hammered like a piston, sweat began to drip from his body, soon the quakes in his system and the rattling got to much and very swiftly it...

Stopped.