~Fear~
Was it sound or was it the racing beat of his heart pounding in his eardrums?
Distantly the agitated voices of Karasuma, Dojima and Amon, demanding to know what was wrong, reached him. Sakaki groaned, speechless, gloved hands clasping his head, fingers digging mutely into his scalp.
Get rid of it-Stop it-Please-Please--Make it stop! The litany repeated over and over in his mind where there was no prayer. No plea to Heaven but rather on the material plane. Sakaki didn't believe in God, at least not one who loved only his children, 'cause didn't you know?
Witches were the Devil's spawn.
And the blood that ran in his veins, God and Solomon HQ knew, was that of the Devil's.
Not that he believed in the Devil, it was more the harm man did that frightened him rather than some horned pagan God. But it didn't matter...
The terror-stricken face of the man running from imaginary fright, ran like a broken record, repeating over and over on a track until it was all he could see.
He sunk to his knees in a silent cry. Make it stop-Make it--
It did stop.
"Shh...it's alright."
Robin. Her arms gently slid around his sides, her hand lightly patting his back. It was soothing, he thought, becoming conscious of the sense of protection enveloping him; the terrifying images fading.
"Everything...is going to be alright." Her soft voice wiped away the last traces of the desperate fear. It was then in the dim recesses of his assaulted mind, Sakaki realized he could never think of her as being of the Devil.
~Finis~
Note: Maybe vague hint of SxR? But only if you squint;) set during ep: Smells like the wandering spirit. ^^; I can't remember the episode number though. The part about Sakaki being a witch--well a seed--is my own conjecture since it was made clear later on in the series, that normal humans couldn't handle the Orbo, so that meant that the STN-J witch hunters had to be either craft users or seeds. Thanks for reading :)
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