Written for Lady Shadowcat. The request was to write about my LiveJournal icon of sinbound Reki. (This refers to Reki right after she became sinbound.)

Drabble, 100 words

Sinbound

I'll never be clean or pure again, never feel I am a true Haibane again, and never know peace.

The Communicator says only what he wishes and never acknowledges our need to know. There's too much empty space in our stories, how does anyone bear it?

Punishment, well that's trivial now. And as for my fellow criminal, he was never the point in the first place. His sentence is less, because everyone knows what I am. Yes, I am bitter, allow me that.

But I refuse to believe I'm the only one who wants to go up that wall.