I stand at the window.

My friend, my dearest, best, funny, grumpy friend in front of me.

"Arrivaderci, Megido!"

Death isn't as horrible as it seems. All my life the dead have been whispering to me. Telling me about death, the things that I must do simply because they are doomed to happen. Now I fully understand, and death still doesn't scare me. After all, there was nothing I could have done to prevent it.

The ruins of my broken hive no longer interest me. Nor does the body of my lifelong caretaker, whimpering it's last sounds in the ashes. The excavation sites are empty and dull. I have something else in mind rather than staying here. In the back of my mind, there's a strange pull. A place that I have been before, but lost my interest in. The voices are reawakening this interest, tempting me. However, there's something that needs to be done first, before it's too late. One after one, feelings and emotions are fading, leaving behind a void of a person. The hands of my mind take hold of a limp, but living body. His breath is soft, barely audible, but it is enough for me to know he survived.

Leave this mortal be, leave, leave. The yells around me increase in intensity. Ethereal arms take hold of me, drag me to the place where I am destined to be very soon. I appease them for now with a softly whispered promise.

The night bathes in a jaded light while the green moon in the sky watches over us. Beneath me trolls are scurrying about on their daily errands. So boring, so meaningless. The window of his block at the top of the hivestem is still open. Gently, I lower his body into the ruperacoon. He needs sleep, anything he saw was a bad dream and from now on I'll do anything to convince him it was.

I move on. In front of me the ruins of an old excavation site approach. The dead encourage me with their excited chatter. They stop only when I touch the broken building. I feel nothing. No hope, no rage. After the disappearance of those emotions all that's left behind is a tiny speck of pity.

(It's okay now. Sollux is okay.)

(Please let him be okay.)

I open up my computing device and wait.


And so my first serious prose is concluded. I hope you liked it. I guess it turned out a little more apocalispy than I intended (considering I'm not really a fan of it), but feel free to interpret it as such if that floats your ship ;)