'Look at what you got us into again,'
He could almost hear the chiding, exasperated yet completely resigned tone of her voice.
'You know you almost got us killed, don't you?'
He thought of how he always just gave Mira a lopsided grin at that; but how those words now turned into burning chains that coiled around his heart, eating their way in, leaving nothing but black ashes behind.
Even as he stared now, as the blood pour out from her torso, as her entire body screamed out in agony for that final time, as he looked into familiar eyes with an unfamiliar desperation. In those last seconds, her thoughts were not for herself, but for him. And in that stretched out moment of time, he could see her lips moving ever so slightly, and that last word, just for him.
Run.
Years and years of loyal friendship, as they stood by each other's side, as she stood by him, even after they had their own romances with others--all those years--and this was how it ended. How he repaid her.
His scream tore out of his body in such a way that he wished it would just rip him apart.
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