June 5th - Digital Devil Saga, Embryon/Roland: Cuddling - He'd never felt such a powerful sense of belonging


One of the Pack

It's weird, Roland thinks as his glasses are taken away from him and he is laid down on a thin mattress. He has never really felt he fit in much anywhere: damn writer's quirk, Adil had once said. Even when he had had to lead the Lokapala, he had felt more like a vague signpost suggesting they go here and there than a real leader with a team under his command.

It can only be the sign that something is deeply wrong with him, then, that the only thing he feels as he lay in the middle of a pile of perfect, artificially designed bodies smelling faintly of blood and corruption, a smell that he too will soon bear, is an overwhelming sense of belonging.