ā you canāt save people, you can only love them. ā // mori.
(how exactly do you love someone?)
some tell him its in the language of flowers: red roses for a love, for an eternal spring that blooms. others tell him its in his actions, tender kisses, soft touches. chivalry. small notes to prove his affection. jewelry, diamond rings, chocolates in velvet heart-shaped boxes. watching the sunrise. every single definition heās heard is different.
mori doesnāt know how to love. heās never learned, not in the fifty million, forty hundred thousand and so runs heās gone through in his existence. mori is a video game character. heās computed to shoot until his ship explodes. the screen pops up with a HIGH SCORE title and numbers. he rests until the next willing victim tosses a coin into the system. rinse, repeat.
āsaving people is all iām good for, jourdan.āĀ
(& i canāt even do that in this world.)
the glitch lays still on the floor, glancing up at his palm as it fades away into a blue hologram. thereās a shock of electric that shoots straight through to his spine. the boy doesnāt flinch.Ā āiāve harmed more people than iāve saved.ā the light from the windows peer straight through the holes of his hand.Ā āwhat does it take to love?ā (if dissected, iām not sure if iāll even have a human heart.)














