Chapter two TT.. I hope you get this to wake up to at least ^^
Will's fingers clenched, mussing the sheet of forms with wrinkles, but she stared blankly forward pretending mybe to be actually looking at something because she could feel Cornelia's firm glaze like ice and fire and- And everything ran through her head; a building of constant chatter; of rings, of hums, of buzzing tones and male voices and gruff and polite and compliant and complaints and.. And then there was always.. "It's funny, like she's almost controlling you.. You don't even want to stay, do you? No one wants you to stay."
Will knew in that moment, that all eyes were on her but she could only note the frustration; the hiss that joined this woman's words. So she asked what she needed, "Will you stay?"
"What? Of course not! Dear little heart I'm going with y-" The paper tore and Will felt her knees wanting to give. Something jolted; stuck, her heart stopping inside of her.. Because there was silence. Silence true to the word.
"Ring ring! Ring Ring!"
"Bzzzzzz..Bzzzzzz..Bzzzzzz.."
"I guess everything is fixed, right?" Will bit her lip and blinked back tears as Cornelia's smile tried to surface, but Will couldn't seem to hear her under the rampage of what she had to discovered to be..everything. The lights themselves gave out a shrill cry, and the phones begged in tiresome state, and the entire office of hundreds upon hundreds of things seemed dazzled with the life of a bustling centre, despite that everyone had gone home. It was the dead of night, and everyone was screaming. And she couldn't bare to even smile as Cornelia pushed her arm to link, as if she really wanted her here at all. "All that's left is brain box, and Taranee text me-"
"I know- I mean.. I saw you reading.."
The obvious tone of unhappiness rang truer than Will might want on another day, but there was the underlying question of whether she had made a mistake. Had she ruined any chance, because it was too late because she was already dying, but now they were all dying too.. And she had forgotten that Taranee had gone. Gone to catch her out, because it was her fault. She hadn't slept at all and then.. And she had told Hay Lin that she had. "You insufferable.. Will.. Remember to wish your friends sweet dreams."
"I didn't have a dream." It spat out before she could stop it, and staring eyes pierced her, whilst a voice that wasn't there screamed above all others.
...
"I had a dream.." Caleb could feel the poor man drifting, out of the lethargic quality of staying in one place for so long. Julian was used to moving, and Caleb's mind whirred like a hundred thousand cogs in that second. "And then, it happened."
The tired sigh rinsed around the room, and Caleb begged for this man to go on forever until he was asleep. He hadn't meant to fight when Julian had spoken, but there was no advice good enough, if it every directed from Will.. It was in the sigh that Julian's patience - something Aketon had more of, but Julian had paired it with adoration enough that Caleb once hated him - wore thin of Caleb choosing the subject. "The little spider went missing. I forgot to mention, from when Drake had started feeling better."
"She's a metamorphose, not a spider." Caleb frowned at the accusation, but more at the information he was being presented with because he hadn't wanted her to be locked away. And Elyon didn't seem to understand; to know what he was talking about, or maybe she was pretending because he never got her name. "You wouldn't want me to call you a little boy."
"There is a difference." Julian seemed to be smiling, and Caleb frowned as the darkening room made finding his face slightly harder. He thought it was a joke, and Caleb could only glare because Julian would hate a scowl. "I am a man. She is a spider."
"She isn't!" Caleb sat up and withheld nothing, because Julian was not a taunter, nor a disrespectful, but he was being rude now and Caleb didn't understand why it was funny that he noticed that fact. "In a day when you prove less ignorance than she-"
"A child?"
"A woman." Caleb could recall that the little woman had been proud; thrusting each word out with more bitterness because she thought he was insulting her, but Julian now was. "And do not forget that I was only a boy and Will is only a girl. Will is very much smarter than you."
"Caleb."
"Aldarn is smarter than you, and even Drake and Drake can hardly-"
"Caleb!" Caleb stopped at that, holding a breath for moments before releasing it slowly, because he knew he'd pushed the subject away. He didn't want them to catch her. "Spider or not, she is missing from our prisons and she is fighting with the enemy."
"Of course she is." A lump hit his throat and he wondered if Julian was going to let it go.. But he was hoping for Caleb to know something; this girl was far more new and shiny than before he had gone. She wasn't in his memories that were Phobos'. He knew already. "I think she was his betrothed."
"His?"
"She would have been the Queen of Meridian."
Caleb didn't care if the little woman claimed that she wasn't.