The Labyrinth of Lonely Souls

by reminiscent-afterthought

[AT] All three of them have lost someone precious. And so the labyrinth calls them - and offers them a shadow of a choice. They can find the voices lost to them and stay, or find a sort of peace and move on.

36. Families and Friends III

The Labyrinth of Lonely Souls
36. Families and Friends III

He realises he knows almost nothing about his mother. He's never asked: not his father, not his brother.

It's a mistake, and he'll have to fix it. And he realises he doesn't know a lot about anyone. Kouichi – isn't he guessing wildly, basing it on the one thing he does know? The element? Isn't he just making things up?

And Takuya, and Izumi, and Tomoki, and Junpei… He doesn't know a lot of things about them, he realises. He knows their elements. He knows bits and pieces, but not what sort of music they like, what books or television series or anything like that they watch. He doesn't know those things at all.

He needs to learn them, he thinks.

He needs to learn more about everyone.

So he isn't drifting blind.

Even if it'd probably hurt more.

It'd make the darkness more formed.