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Bored out of his mind. That was eXaCtLy how Alessio was feeling…

He couldn’t afford to slow down.

Get somewhere marginally safe. Find Arsene. Where was that idiot now? Alessio wasn’t sure whether he was more miffed that Arsene wasn’t there, or that he was really scared for him. Because it was a stupid idea to catch feelings for a bankrobber who kidnapped him. He was always picking the wrong people to sympathize with…

He was such a worthless, self-pitying piece of…Alessio closed his eyes and took a slow breath.

He didn’t need to think about himself like that. He wasn’t supposed to.

But he was worthless.

Shut up.

Nobody would really miss him if he-

Devils just shut up! He screamed at his brain, rather uselessly. Gritting his teeth he just kept moving repeating over and over and over again the words he memorized to calm down. ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. you are mine.’

Several minutes wandering through empty halls made the words start to…hit. He just recited them out of habit, he wasn’t sure he’d actually prayed in years…except to beg for help, to find himself just as fractured all over again, to promise himself he wouldn’t keep hoping Someone would actually help him and to repeat the cycle again.

You know I…guess I thought…maybe if I tried harder You might come back…

Maybe I…scared You away…or something…

And now he was even more irritated at himself for being so self-centered. This was just. so. stupid.

“Could be worse,” He finally mumbled outloud, ironically. “I could be lost in an entirely different world, trapped on a ship with a thrill-seeking, insane robber, waiting for a creepy guy with black smoke to come stab me with cursed goop.

Yeah…that would be unfortunate…”

Nobody answered. The walls didn’t spontaneously laugh and Alessio just kept walking, grumbling like a madman. Better add that to his list of “how it could be worse”; being himself a neurotic, edgy, seventeen-year-old with pyromania.

That would be unfortunate.

Alessio tucked the stupid, sooty blanket tighter around his shoulders.

“Soo…it could be worse. For instance-“ There was a loud thud on the other side of the hall. A series of different noises that sounded suspiciously like a fight. Alessio’s first instinct was to run but for some stupid reason, instead he dashed to the door and swung it open.

Arsene was fighting Lady Princess Warrior with a giant box he was trying to get out.

“You literally must be joking.” Alessio said. He wasn’t really sure who’s side he was even on. Until he saw Arsene’s hands shaking with the strange weapon in his hands. That triggered something like a knife through his brain.

Suddenly a wall of fire burst between the two fighters, shielding Arsene…again. But the only thing he could think was Arsene was scared however flamboyant he acted. By now the robber was on the safe, which was rocking.

For a split second, the lady locked eyes with Alessio, everything cold and determined on the surface. He wouldn’t know, but he was probably radiating fury like she’d betrayed his companion. He didn’t know, but that’s what triggered him.

Then he leapt on top of the safe-which-was-starting-to-careened-out-of-control after Arsene. There was no using this stupid giant box to escape, the robber could only be on it because he can’t retrieved the treasure from it, and he probably wasn’t going to leave without it.

“Why haven’t you already used your power to get whatever’s inside the safe and climb through a…that– “ He pointed at the vents, (he wasn’t entirely sure what they were or why they’d be on a ship). “ -while I cause a distraction?”

Whether or not this was a question or an order is left entirely up to the robber to decide…

Alessio didn’t even look at Arsene the entire time, now that he’d decided on a course of action he was entirely fixated on solving the problems they were in for. Everything else was zoned out, including – especially – his emotions, so he probably looked a little more intimidating than usual. In fact, absolutely furious and totally unconscious of it, might’ve accurately described his facial features right now…

 

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