A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, #497 – trance.
i will be only me from now on
Did he fall in love with her, in the end?
It was her voice, her blood, that told him who he was. That made him decide. To abandon that voice in his head that had him wrapped up like a marionette. To follow the path of being free again.
But that was a chain too: love. A chain he'd never needed – or thought he needed. Maybe he had needed it then. Maybe he did need that thing called love after all. A chain to break a chain…
Or maybe it was more than that. Hadn't he been somewhat happy to see her? Hadn't he been a little sad when she'd fallen?
And not just her. Hadn't he wanted to believe the Colonel as well? Hadn't he, even that fateful day twenty years ago, wanted to believe in that promise for freedom? For a world that had a greater reason than just following orders?
But all those things were chains. And he abhorred chains. He struggled against them. He strove to be free from them.
That was why he was on the path he now walked upon. The path he'd always thought he'd walked upon, when he'd collapsed with the sound "Ze" on his lips. That sound that gave him his new name. Also chains.
No heart. No attachment. No name. That was what he had to be.
Rian. Commander Gia. Big Sis. Zen. All of them had to be cut away.
