[ heine could have tried to ignore it. maybe he would have been successful. tellus boasts a legacy of unpredictable events; it's too easy to lose a friend or a foe in the tumult of keeping oneself treading water.
and yet -- rin would have done his damnedest to break the distance.
now, new information clutched in his hands, rin's eyes are wide. bright and blood-red in the pale of his face. it's a trick of the light, nothing more - the dying sunlight picking up hues from rin's hair - but the color isn't bound by lash and lid, red in streaks across his cheeks.
heine sits in the u-bend of jutting concrete, untouched by the dusk. rin has to clear his throat to form the next question, tongue slipping away from the first few syllables. ]
How old were you?
[ an extraneous question, maybe, but rin's only heard the opening act and already he doesn't know what to make of any of it. he needs a point of reference. something to shade in the corners.
super soldiers. genetically engineered.
it's like something out of a comic book. out of the old magical girl anime he used to watch with his sister before his father died. something far and away from everything he knows.
but -- there's a kind of oddly shaped logic in that. heine himself is far and away from everything rin has known. ]
no subject
and yet -- rin would have done his damnedest to break the distance.
now, new information clutched in his hands, rin's eyes are wide. bright and blood-red in the pale of his face. it's a trick of the light, nothing more - the dying sunlight picking up hues from rin's hair - but the color isn't bound by lash and lid, red in streaks across his cheeks.
heine sits in the u-bend of jutting concrete, untouched by the dusk. rin has to clear his throat to form the next question, tongue slipping away from the first few syllables. ]
How old were you?
[ an extraneous question, maybe, but rin's only heard the opening act and already he doesn't know what to make of any of it. he needs a point of reference. something to shade in the corners.
super soldiers. genetically engineered.
it's like something out of a comic book. out of the old magical girl anime he used to watch with his sister before his father died. something far and away from everything he knows.
but -- there's a kind of oddly shaped logic in that. heine himself is far and away from everything rin has known. ]