The painful pang of loneliness was not one in which he expected to feel, at least, not strongly. It was an unwanted experience, one he never wanted to relive. He did not want to raise his eyes to meet the same moon that he had made the Lady look at, he did not want to let out a mournful and terrified shriek of horror, he did not want to experience the feeling that the sky would swallow him back to the empty void he had been in for almost a year, to crumble in a heap of fright when the ground almost seemed to disappear underneath him when his gaze locked on the large, glowing, spherical orb in the sky.

He managed to shut his eyes to stop himself from shrieking, and he trembled as he crumpled to the ground, and curled up into a ball. His breaths were shaky and airy, as if his sound processors were only rasping out air instead of actual noise. His hands were in his dark hair, clenching at it in such a manner that suggested he thought he would lose himself if he was not clinging into anything. He would be paralyzed if he looked up anymore, and he couldn't stand to be humiliated anymore than he supposed She would do.

He expected Her to laugh. He expected the stinging insults to get to him, to echo in his ears in cruel laughter.

That was not the case.

A hand grabbed his chin roughly and jerked it upwards, and his blue optics opened in shock, and his eyes wavered from the sky to Her yellow eyes. Her eyes shone in contrast with the shadow and darkness of the sky behind her, illuminating her sharp, pale features as he fought the instinct to scream. A sickening drop was felt into his stomach as his eyes almost darted to the sky, but he focused on her eyes, focused on the brilliant orbs that sparked with intelligence and-
It was then that he was forced to look higher, and strain his neck to obey the next jerk that she gave his chin.
He took a deep, loud breath as his blue eyes shrunk and he accidentally let the breath go as he stared back up, leaving him to fight for his breath. His hands reached up to grab at her arm, a strangled cry erupting from his mouth as he gazed up at the dark sky. If it was not for her arm, he would have convinced himself of being lost up there forever again.
After what seemed like ages of tormented agony, the steel hand let go of his chin, and his whole body crumpled to the previous ball it had been. He laid there, shaking, slowly taking deep breaths at her feet. The yellow-eyed android peered at him for a moment, and once seemingly satisfied with how the experiment had gone, turned on her heels and started to walk away.
The moron looked at her retreating feet with confusion, "wh-Why would you d-do THaT?"

"To see if you were still terrified of it. Or more specifically, see if you even had a reaction to Space. I never dreamed it would be that bad." A cold chuckle followed, and the poor idiot trembled slightly as he regained enough strength to sit up. She was still walking away.

"W-where are you goin'? You, you aren't leavin' me here alone are you..?"

"That's exactly what I plan to do." The doors slid open and the moron strained himself to get up, clumsily, and try to follow. She glanced over her shoulder as the doors began closing. "Good luck."

Slam.

The doors locked with a soft hiss and he fell, left on his knees as he shook uncontrollably. He didn't want to stay here. He did not want to stay here, locked up in a room that had the sky threatening to swallow him whole again.

He didn't want to.

The moron opened his eyes slowly and wavered his gaze as he stared at the walls and shifted his gaze slowly to the ceiling.

He blinked, and raised his eyes. The ceiling was closed. There was only the dark ceiling above him.

No space.

The intercom came on, and he knew very well what made her scoff.

"You idiot."

: Author's Note._

: I'm terribly sorry I haven't updated. I have been on winter break during December, and I've been battling some anxiety attacks as deadlines come up and sports have games for me to go to. I have to sort all of this out, but I've been getting better at managing things as days go on. Thank you for being patient, though. It means the world to me.