#b-writes

The girls do their duty. Like soldiers following the wrong orders. It's not the way you think.

They turn the honmoon gold you know and the new shinny golden barrier, shinny like fool's gold feels oppressive and suffocating. Celine told them before (a little drunk) how brutal her own training was, how alienating, how stifling...

They were trained to fulfill a duty. Rumi concluded that's why her mother falling in love with a demon, was traitorous and preposterous for the other hunters. It's also why there's no third sunlight sister in sight. Celine stayed, even with her faults and fears. Celine loves Rumi more than duty.

She doesn't want to hide but she knows this, so she follows her guardian orders to cover up.

Still she came clear the night before the Idols Awards. Rumi just told them.

Rumi was prepared to die.

If Zoey and Mira were going to do their duty, she would only beg to make the honmoon gold and nothing else.

She was so tired.

Rumi was a fool.

Did she really think less from her fellow hunters (she didn't, really, but duty is a heavy burden)

They cried, hugged, and asked for explanations and clarifications. They talked all night, they were angry, happy, sad and all in between.

Mira and Zoey love Rumi more than duty.

They promise to make the honmon gold as Rumi requested.

They did it.

It was gold and beautiful and so, so wrong.

Rumi still has the marks.

The next thing she felt is Zoey pushing her out the way like a car wreck.

The new golden honmoon is wrong or most likely is right. It feeds from all the hunters before them. It's rigid, angry, duty filled and not fulfilled. Hunters who died from demons claws are demanding demons blood.

"Fulfill your duty! Fulfill your duty" they chant in the hunters heads. Even the demon spawn can hear it. Half hunter and half demon. She's the best of both worlds and it's bitter. The advantages that she can get.

Rumi looks at Mira, Gok-do summoned. She would be impaled in her fellow hunters weapon but Zoey just pushed her off the way.

Mira looks like she's in pain. Fighting with the angry voices in her head. Zoey can't help anymore. The maknae is fighting her own battle and losing. Shinkals bares, like fangs... In warning.

The urge to summon her Saingeom is there but she still can fight it.

What she can't do is see them suffering like that.

"Rumi" Mira is even struggling to speak "I can't resist it" the Gok-do is trembling in her hands.

"Rumi run" Zoey isn't in a better shape "please run" she begs

Rumi just stood before them. Smiling very sadly and sweet.

It's kind of ironic. Celine taught her to hide and if she was ever discovered she taught her to run and not look back.

She couldn't hide anymore and now she can't run away.

She was born to be... A lamb to the slaughter, and she would too, fulfill her duty.

The new golden honmoon feels her intentions.

Mira and Zoey stopped trembling in shock and realization "Rumi no" they beg and it's so sweet and so sad at the same time. Rumi thinks maybe in another life.

"I love you, both of you" She said looking at each one of her girls "and I'm ready"

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