"MOOOOOOON—!!"Lucas panicked and ran through the place where Moon is —this time, he went late.
He didn"t noticed that Moon himself was the one who hurriedly went into him.
"Lucas, what are you doing?"
Lucas felt the little rasping texture of Moon"s voice. It felt like he cried and was acting to talk as normal as possible.
"No, Moon. What are you doing here?"
Moon looked unaware. He was staring at Lucas and cannot asnwer.
"Hey, Moon!" Lucas exclaimed.
Moon looked back. "You know what?" he laughed.
Lucas felt it —his sadness. He wasn"t laughing, he"s crying!
"Why she has to be that Headmaster"s daughter?!" Moon continued. "Why?!"
Lucas bowed his head. After all, he wasn"t the only one who is experiencing problems. Moon has his own, too.
"I cannot see her anymore.. Why?"
Lucas tried to reply, but he can"t. His throat dried up —he shouldn"t, also.
Moon sat at the rocky part of the cliff. There have no gra.s.s at all, looking like a mountainous surface.
"Moon, let"s sleep." Lucas just replied. "The Overall Skill Selection is tomorrow. Don"t forget to sleep, we have to win that selection.."
Moon left a laugh of hopelessness. "How can I win the game, if I can"t win a girl?"
This time, Moon faced Lucas with that sentence. Lucas smelled the alcohol behind Moon"s breath. He was drunk!
"I will never be enough.. For anyone and anything.."
"You were drunk! Let"s get back to the dorm." Lucas insisted. "It was cold here outside. I don"t want to catch a cold!"
Lucas was still investigating the surroundings. He can still feel the danger.
"Let"s go, Moon!"
The two ran off to check the dormitory. Once inside, the are wondering that the dormitory was completely fine!
All the borders, as they came, was currently awakening because of them. Some complains on them being clumsy, that they awakened because of them.
The two just share mutual stare. They head back to their room in response.
"What happened, Lucas?" Moon asked. "What is that danger you are talking about?"
Lucas shook his head. "It looked like something bad will happen, but I don"t know if it was really you. All of the borders are completely asleep."
What did Lucas saw about Moon? But.. was it really Moon who he had a bad feeling that something will happen to?
"Never mind. Let"s just sleep. The Selection tomorrow sure was hard."
Moon laid down on his bed. "Goodnight, Lucas!" Moon greeted with his eyes closed.
"Goodnight, too!"
Just as Lucas laid on the bed, an object in the room caught his attention. He watched the two suits neatly attached to a corner of the room.
One is reddish brown like a maroon, and the other is dark red. He remember the one who gave the first suit.
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Coach Clive.
After Lucas left the Hall that morning when he was wet with waters, he headed straight to his cla.s.sroom. He was no longer planning to go back to the meeting.
Lucas was surprised when suddenly, he heard a knock on his door that time.
Lucas opened it instantly, and he was stunned to see Coach Clive. He smiled at Lucas and in his hands, he held a training suit. Lucas still remembered what Coach Clive said.
"You did a great job back there," he said in a refined, deep voice, "I admire you for that."
Coach Clive does not look like a saint, because Lucas can see the tone in his voice that there was a discipline in his eyes. He was not that demanding and scary coach from before.
However, he looked like a father— the image in Lucas" mind when he try to remember his parents. But to Lucas, his parents did not exist anymore in the first place.
"If you ever go back there and finish the meeting, here, wear this."
He gave the training suit to Lucas and left after that. Few seconds had pa.s.sed before Lucas closed the door again. He didn"t use the training suit because he know going back to the meeting is futile. But he was not able to return it to the Coach.
Lucas heaved a sigh and removed his gaze from the training suit. He laid down on the bed and watched the ceiling. It"s just awkward that one of the most demanding and scary Coach in this school looked like they are far from what everyone was expected. For Lucas, he seemed that Coach Clive has changed.
...
At the cliff, where Moon and Lucas previously reside at, a mysterious woman appeared to be sitting. She has her curly white hair up to her waist.
She faced back, seeing the headband in sky blue color being wore by that girl. Her eyes were a bit of a slash. She kept her smirk on her white face.
"Those who violate the creed of the White must be returned to naught..." the girl uttered in a grim, pitchy voice. "Things like fires belong to Blaze Harper.."
The girl laughed out loud, slightly pestering Lucas who is sleeping, and suddenly vanished without a trace.
The Ender. That girl is The Ender.