Tsuru watched Keir walk away, she wondered if what she said affected him so much. But more than that, she wondered why he was so persistent in telling her that eventually, she would have to move on. Couldn"t he see that she didn"t want to think about a life without him?She looked down at her hands and that red smoke she despised. It followed him everywhere no matter where she went or what she did, always behind her and always in front of her. Clowning her view when she stood in one spot for too long, forcing her to move.
She found herself thinking back on her brother Akeem, her cousin, her home. And then Keir, her new family, her everything. She couldn"t bear the thought of losing her loved ones again like that. Floating to his room she knocked on the door, "Keir?"
She heard shuffling on the other side of the room, before he opened a crack in the door, barely enough to look at her, "Yes, Tsuru?"
"Let"s talk, I know you"re persistent on the idea of you dying off. But please, don"t give up the search, we can still be immortals together." Tsuru tried to speak him out of his foolish ideas.
She heard him chuckling behind the door, "It"s the reality Tsuru, we won"t be living an eternity together. I just want you to face reality." He didn"t wait for her to answer or even process what he had said before the door was closed once more.
She shook her head and refused to take his words and just give up, knocking on the door again a little harder, "No, Keir! We can live in eternity together! We can, please! I love you!" She leaned against the door and slowly slid down it, "Don"t make me live like that! I don"t want to be alone!"
Hearing him open the door again she looked up. Having Keir looking down at her with a frown, "You"re so sweet Tsuru. You care so much, but I won"t lie to you. There is no way I"ll be immortal, and there is no way, we"ll live the happy lives you want so desperately." His eyes glared at her while saying this. Like pouring salt on a wound was the feeling his words gave her, "Stop closing your eyes when you don"t want to look, stop covering your ears to not listen, and face the reality. We can never be happy, we are cursed."
With those words he slammed the door on her face, leaving her to process his words on her own as he hid in his room.
Her memory fogging the distant recollection slowly fading away
By the time Tsuru came back to her senses she was in the car, in the back seat, and Keme was driving towards what she a.s.sumed to be the airport after their last conversation.
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"You"re awake!" Allon cheered from the pa.s.senger seat while looking back at her.
Tsuru raised her eyebrow in question, "When did I go to sleep?"
The smile in Allon"s face dissipated, "You"ve been asleep hours. After you got to the car you said you"d take a nap and well, you woke up now."
She hummed and touched her forehead trying to remember it, Keme looked at her from their mirror and spoke up, "You were pretty sleepy, I doubt you remember."
"Let"s talk about something else, I don"t want to think about this." She said, wanting to forget about everything else, and not need to worry.
"Hm." Allon brought his hand to his face leaning his chin on it, "I"ve always been curious about the Pharos."
"Why though?" Keme asked him.
Tsuru got into the subject when recollecting a distant memory, "I met them. I can"t remember their name, but I know I did. Gotta admit, thinking about them makes me slightly angry."
Allon looked at her with interest, "Angry? Did you have a grudge?"
"Maybe," she chuckled, "What about the Romans, did you guys meet them?"
Keme spoke up at the topic, "I did. There where good times, bad times, and even worse times. What about the Greeks? I spent time with them, did any of you?"
Tsuru through about it but had no recollection of she had, "Not that I remember."
"I did, it was interesting." Allon declared, "I find it funny, how we"ve lived through all those years and still talk about it."
She looked at him in agreement, "Agreed, how we lived it all, and still around. To a certain point, it"s all tragic. Great cities rise and fall, are born and are killed, different endings yet all the same. They all had great people, people who aren"t remembered today."
Keme noticed how she became gloomier with each word and interrupted, "There where bad people too, some that are still remembered. It"s a shame that the worst was the only thing remembered." That sentence hit a nerve in her but she didn"t say anything only frowned in displeasure, "Next place, let"s see here, how about Aztec culture?"
All three of them seemed to know the subject and Allon and Tsuru opened their mouth to speak at the same time. Laughing lightly together letting Tsuru speak first, "I was there, had a master even. It was different, to put in words."
Allon hummed at her words and said his part, "It"s in my top 10 favorite cultures, I do agree with you it was, different as you put it. But it was nice, change in scenery, in people, not completely for the best, but it was something." He looked at Keme, "What was your memory there."
"I got married."