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"Wow I'm bored…" Leto opened her eyes; though she couldn't tell if they were open, she was floating in something black.
"Why am I here again? Oh yeah, Lotus banished me…" she reminisced their argument.
"Guess I went over board…Hn?" she somehow lifter her hand to her face. "Oh man, I'm such a wuss." She quickly rubbed her eyes with her sleeve, but they wouldn't stop falling.
"Heh, I don't deserve to be a hollow if my mouse can make me cry like this!" She started laughing melancholy, silver drops drifting from her cheeks like they were bubbles in water.
"Too late to say sorry now…not that I was going to." She forced herself to a standing position, which was difficult since she had become weightless.
She pressed her hands around her body "My sword's gone…" she then looked around, nothing but black, her white skin clashed with the background. Where on earth was she? If she was even on earth. Leto had never once left Lotus's mind before, she'd heard of a place hollows could go instead of their hosts but she enjoyed Lotus's company better so she chose not to.
Leto laughed again, she was getting lonely without her mouse, how long had she been out?
"Leto?" Lotus winced, preparing to be yelled at as she woke up.
Nothing.
She sat up, her mind was unusually clear, it was Sunday so she had slept in, perhaps Leto wasn't awake either, or was just giving her the silent treatment for yesterday's argument.
Well she'd soon give in, she hated silence, that's why she talked too much.
Lotus swung her legs from underneath her covers and stood up, aware that her mirror was now in pieces the bin. She pulled on some lazy clothes and tied her hair up in a messy bun, she had no friends to hang out with and she wasn't interested in any boys at the moment so she didn't need to dress to impress. She shuffled her way into the living room in her fuzzy slippers, there was an old cupboard TV in the corner, shelves covered the walls with dust coated books and an unlit fireplace sat facing a red and gold loveseat, a few owls peeped from other almost vacant shelves, which gave Lotus the creeps and couldn't bare to touch them.
All of this belonged to her deceased aunt, who had gone mad and written in her will that everything she owned had to go to Lotus because she was the only decent woman in the family, or something like that, probably because she replied to the crazy Christmas cards with just as much madness as they were originally given, with the help of Leto.
She decided to have pancakes for breakfast, that would defiantly make Leto talk, no matter how many hollow she ate, pancakes were her favorite, even if she wasn't the one eating them.
"Leto, I'm making pancakes, what should I put on them?" Lotus spoke out loud whilst turning the hob on and preparing the mix.
She got no reply.
"Leto. Pancakes." She whisked the flour, eggs, milk and sugar, still no reply. Lotus sighed and stopped mid beating and went to the bathroom, she looked in the mirror and startled herself, she saw…herself! For the first time in 4 years she saw her own reflection and no white counter part and no oddly coloured and positioned inside out buildings, she would have been happy if she hadn't been so concerned as to Leto's whereabouts.
"Leto? Where are you?" Lotus felt panic rise inside her, oh dear…what had she done?
Leto carried on floating, she had taken up a new game called "Find-my-damn-sword" which was very hard since she didn't even know which way was up in this weightless black hole.
"Ooookay, I'm getting really sick of this!" She began wading through the black like water. "Where the hell is the exit?!" She stormed forward, clearly pissed off.
"OOF! Watch it-" She froze, she had crashed into something…and she wished she hadn't.
She'd seen and created death before and even watched quite a few gory films through Lotus's eyes but this was the one thing the terrified her.
A rotting corpse.
It's flesh eaten away and discolored with time, its teeth rotting and yellow, the stench almost unbearable, its clothes falling, revealing even more dead flesh and rotten bone, but its eyes got her the most, they were yellow and unseeing, a faint blue ring visible if you looked hard enough, it was disgusting.
"Uh…uhwa…haa…" She raised her hands to her face, she'd touched it!
She couldn't tear her eyes away, afraid if she did that the 'thing' would spring to life and touch her. But as she stared it became more familiar.
Lotus
Soon she was screaming uncontrollably, hollows didn't get afraid, they weren't scared of anything, but Leto was unprepared and unarmed, she had nothing to ensure her survival, and she wasn't her own person.
She crouched down, unable to stand any longer and carried on screaming, begging the dead body of Lotus to leave her, eventually she looked up and it was gone…replaced with her black and red gleaming sword. Let reached up to touch it's hilt, and there was the brightest flash of light too bright to be visible human eyes.