12-26-2024, 09:23 PM
She kept her arm looped with Roza’s as they stepped back out onto the street. Ashton followed behind, and Esper mostly ignored him, though it was a lie; she felt everything he was, was excavating every emotion as he felt it. She did not see his backward glance, but she sensed it; the worry in him.
First Voxel, then the man with the baby; she decided she did not like that house and the things it tried to steal from her. The Vegas’ luxurious manor, or somewhere else, it didn’t matter to Esper where they actually ended up. But she did not like the idea of being confined. She did not like the idea of rules, after suffering them for so long. Not now Roza had set them free, anyway.
“You should stay with us. Why would you go back?” she asked.
First Voxel, then the man with the baby; she decided she did not like that house and the things it tried to steal from her. The Vegas’ luxurious manor, or somewhere else, it didn’t matter to Esper where they actually ended up. But she did not like the idea of being confined. She did not like the idea of rules, after suffering them for so long. Not now Roza had set them free, anyway.
“You should stay with us. Why would you go back?” she asked.