Run Away
"Just run, Gojyo! Run away, and keep running until you can't see this place. Run away and don't look back!"
"But... Jien. What about you? Mom's... if they find you..."
"Shut up and run, damn it! It's not me they'll be after, it's YOU! Now, get the hell out of here!"
"Jien... I don't wanna be alone!"
"Listen to me, Gojyo! Run away, NOW!"
Gojyo stared at the ceiling of his two roomed house, tracing the cracks in the plaster slowly with his gaze. The ceiling fan was whirring slowly, the only other sound in the house the groaning of metal pipes. He'd done exactly what Jien had said, and he'd run and run until he'd fainted from exhaustion. And he would have kept running, too. From the house, this village, this world...
Except... now he couldn't. He was tied up and held to this place by a person. And that person was lying in his bed and near dead.
Sorry, Jien. I can't run away this time.
