[That hopefulness almost hurts--not only because he can see his own past hopes reflected (see where they weren't enough), but also because he has to be the one to lay it to rest.]
No.
[Not "in a manner of speaking", though he'd been tempted to phrase it like that. No, doing that would make this harder to say.]
They're gone, Ciel. I can't sense Zero, at all, and...
[Well, the absence is obvious.
It feels too concise to put it like that, too neat. Nothing in life is neat like that. X has lived and persisted long enough to know better than to even begin to believe that, but... The fact of the matter is that's about all there is to it: gone.]
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Date: 2017-03-23 06:00 am (UTC)From:No.
[Not "in a manner of speaking", though he'd been tempted to phrase it like that. No, doing that would make this harder to say.]
They're gone, Ciel. I can't sense Zero, at all, and...
[Well, the absence is obvious.
It feels too concise to put it like that, too neat. Nothing in life is neat like that. X has lived and persisted long enough to know better than to even begin to believe that, but... The fact of the matter is that's about all there is to it: gone.]