Chapter 2
Ceres
„I cannot believe you brought him here."
„You better be damn sure I did." - Ceres replied and let herself stretch out on the bed. Her dark pink hair had spilled on the pillow. - „We need someplace to crash tonight."
„But why it has to be my place?" - groaned the woman in the armchair - „Of all places..."
„If we hide, maybe we can make it thorugh this." - Ceres said in her serious tone - „I need to take Adam the hell out of Mistral."
„But Ceres, this man is..."
„I goddamn know who he is!" - she exclaimed and clenched her fists. Ceres released her tension in a quiet sigh and procedeed to form short white lines of powder on the mirror laying on the cofee table.
„Stop doing this in front of me." - said the woman with utter disgust, as he watched Ceres snorting one of the lines.
„Is it this sickening?" - the girl asked - „Is it?"
„You damn know it is." - the woman growled - „You should go to rehab. Start a normal life. Get a grip of the things you could achieve if you were sober."
„Tried the sobriety thing. 2/10, wouldn't recommend." - Ceres snorted the next line – „My mind is killing me when I'm sober."
The woman obviously wanted to reply, but her voice went quiet when she noticed how Ceres' pupils started to disappear and reappear rapidly.
„He's broken and so am I." - the girl whispered as her cheeks were starting to blush - „We would make a perfect duet."
Adam dreamed of nothingness. He hadn't had any dreams since he met Ceres.
It's been ten days already.
Judging by bags under the girl's eyes she didn't sleep well. In fact, she was holding a cup of coffee and staring blindly into the wall of hotel room.
She dyed Adam's hair black, gave him a new set of clothes, including a red cap and a new blindfold. And he couldn't stop analyzing what has really happened in the forest. He was fighting Blake…
BLAKE
An arrow of pain pierced through his mind again.
„Adam, you're dead to her. In fact, you're dead to pretty much everyone." - Ceres said, blinking.
„I still don't understand why you saved me. And how do you know when…"
„When you're thinking of Blake Belladonna?" - the girl ended his question and sighed, sipping her cofee - „I don't. I just sense the pain she causes to your mind."
Ceres set the cup down the table and stretched herself out. Her eyes were bloodshot.
„I'm going to nap a bit."
He couldn't leave without his precious weapon and that pink-haired mind-messing girl had it hidden in a place Adam wasn't able to find. And he was so, so angry about it.
„We're leaving."- the girl said the next morning. Adam realised why they were heading to the Vacuo but he kept thinking about escaping and going to find B…
„Stop this already!" - Ceres yelled, clenching her fists. Adam noticed rapid changes in her eyes' appearance. That shit was scary.
Ceres sighed.
„The quicker you understand you by no means can go back to the life you had the easier this gets to you. You are a wanted criminal, and besides, you are supposed do be dead, so get your shit together, act like a dead man and shut the hell up."
The girl yawned. Adam sat on a chair and focused his sight on the girl. She looked very tired. Her complexion was pale and he saw something that looked slightly blue on her fingertips.
She obviously had not slept in a few days.
„Why are you doing this?" - Adam asked, looking closer to her - „Why are you..."
„What?"
She seemed a bit anxious for a second.
„Why are you angry?"
She blinked and bit her lower lip. Adam already noticed she was doing this when she was uncomfortable with something.
„I'm not angry, Adam." she replied. Her left hand was shaking. It reminded him of Yang immidiately. -" Get your things."