Specks of Red in Black Corners

by reminiscent-afterthought

[drabble collection, side-story to Two Deaths and a Living Friend] Shou, after losing both Norun and Peck, tucks himself into a dark corner and continues to sink - except for the efforts Tsurugi makes to reach him that give a little light.

10. L

Specks of Red in Black Corners

10: L

There were three English letters on the screen. N. E. O. Sometimes, Norun had wondered if the N was an L – since this was a Japanese computer and there was no equivalent to the letter L in the Japanese alphabet.

But it was an overseas site from the looks of things and his computer had no trouble displaying English letters – and there were Ls scattered elsewhere on the page. Just not on the title screen. It was just those three. N. E. O. NEO.

Norun had been in two minds about that site, but she'd still been interested in it. Interested enough to visit it every time she was at Shou's house, in his bedroom, on his computer.

Even without her, he visited that page every day.

Some days, he never made it past the title page.