Gematrail — Echo Observer — Lævateinn Chapter 10: Echo08 – Sinking into Eternal Darkness

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↓↓↓ Click here ↓↓↓ 📀 the soundtrack and theme songs 💿 🎶🎧 Spotify 🎧🎶 track Num : 14 Light against his eyelids. Warmth beside him, soft and continuous. A breath, unhurried, tracing the side of his neck. An unfamiliar sky. A gentle weight. The quiet sound of someone else being alive nearby. Right. Akari. I slept with Akari. He was still holding that thought when she stirred. “Mmnh… good morning…” Still half-submerged in sleep, she moved with the fluid ease of someone unself-conscious in their own skin, and settled herself over him, the warmth and weight of her pressing fully against his chest. “Let me take care of you this morning… stay still…” “W-wait, Akari — if you get that close I’m going to — mmph —” “You need to rest,” she murmured, and her lips closed over his objection entirely. Her tongue was unhurried and thorough. The sound of it — warm, liquid, intimate — filled the quiet room with a frankness that left no room for pretense. When she finally drew back: “Like you always used to… please be gentle with me…” She’s still asleep. She’s doing this completely asleep. “Sister.” Miku’s voice arrived from somewhere behind them, crisp and unsentimental. “Sorry to interrupt, but it’s time.” Order was restored. Barely. That was dangerous in several simultaneous senses. “Rain is coming,” Miku continued. “Once it starts, your connection to the real world breaks. You won’t be able to go back.” That settled things. There were things he needed to confirm, things that couldn’t wait. He gathered himself and dressed. “Thank you. For everything.” He looked at Akari. “I don’t want to leave. But I have to.” “And I’ll be here whenever you return.” She leaned forward and pressed her lips to his cheek, then folded her arms around him and pulled him close, her warmth a complete and uncomplicated thing. “Last night was wonderful,” she murmured against his neck, and the heat that ran up his spine nearly dismantled his composure entirely. “ Sister, ” Miku said, with visible suffering. “Some of us are standing right here.” “Oh? As I recall, you joined us—” “ SISTER. ” His face had achieved a temperature he was not sure was survivable. He communicated this via gesture and looked to Miku for help. She seemed to arrive at some private decision, crossed the space between them in three steps, and crack. “You absolute pervert —! Degenerate! Wolf —!” The sting in his cheek confirmed that reality, somewhere, was still operating normally. Why, he thought, does every dimension contain someone who hits me. “For what it’s worth,” Akari offered pleasantly, “Miku couldn’t keep still either—” “If you say one more word I will—you know I will—” Miku’s face, when she turned to him, was doing something complicated and losing. The look she fixed on him was fierce and unsteady and very close to tears. “You’d better not think what just happened gives you any rights,” she said. “Are we clear.” “…Yes. I’m sorry.” Two women like this, and somehow I ended up here. He held the thought for a moment, turned it over once, and let it go. He said his farewells and followed Miku back down the path. She walked ahead of him the whole way, her posture broadcasting displeasure at a frequency visible from distance. “Are we going to be clear about something,” she said, without turning. “Sure—” “Don’t treat what you have like it’s something you can just hand around.” “I — that’s not what I—” She made a sound of mild, targeted contempt. “Your ability. It functions like medicine. It also functions like poison.” He had not been asking about that, but— “What?” “Relax. My sister and I know exactly what we’re dealing with. This is research. Properly conducted research.” She looked away, and the back of her neck went a shade darker. “What the people hunting you actually want — it’s a function of your ability. It keeps death at a distance. It sustains the living.” “My ability does that —” “People contaminated by SCP energy get pulled toward the threshold between life and death. They beco