"VWHAT DO YOU MEAN EWVERYONE VWILL DIE?! Cronus stands up abruptly, yelling out the question.
"You will learn in time. Now if you don't mind, I have stuff to do," says Hope, hiding her surprise from him. Cronus stares at her for a before stomping out of her study. The door closes behind him, but he just continues walking.
Cronus ends up in a tree, sitting on one of the branches. He's been up there for a few hours, but he thinks that no one really cares for him, so he believes that no one will look for him. Of course that's not true, for just at this very moment, Eridan, Jake and Dirk walk up to the tree and call up to him.
"Cronus, may you tell us why you are up there?" asks Jake, directly under the branch he is sitting on. Cronus doesn't answer, her just stares into oblivion as the three get worried. Jake climbs up the tree, hoping to help Cronus as best as he can. "Cronus, what's wrong?" asks Jake, sitting next to Cronus.
"It's nothing," he murmurs, wishing that they wouldn't be there.
"It's not nothing. To get you like this, it has to be something."
"It's really nothing at all, honest."
"Then it shouldn't be a problem if you told me," Jake got him there, making Cronus sigh. He tells Jake all about it, and both Eridan and Dirk join them. After about an hour of Cronus explaining, they all see why he was the way he was.
"That's terrible, but we will be here for you Cronus," says Jake, gesturing to Eridan and Dirk. Cronus looks at them with a bit of surprise but smiles at them contently.
"Don't you have something you want to tell him, Jake?" asks Dirk, gently nudging him with his elbow.
"Oh yeah, haha. So Cronus, I've studied up on troll quadrants, and well, I was thinking that maybe we could be, you know, moirails," says Jake, his voice getting more and more shaky as he says the sentence. Cronus really got surprised when he said that, never had a thought of being moirails with Jake.
"You want to be my moirail?" asks Cronus, just making sure he heard Jake right.
"Yes, I do, I really do," says Jake, scratching the back of his neck a bit. Cronus smiles really big, and Jake smiles back at him.
"Sure, we can be moirails," says Cronus, making Jake smile even bigger.
