He was not used to this empty feeling.
It was hollow, chilling, left a cold within his arms and legs and the pit of his stomach.
Masumi Momono wasn't used to these feelings.
He sat, slumped as he was, in the corner of the coffee house. His laptop rested in the bag by his side, an empty deck box resided upon his hip as a hollow reminder of his recent failure. And oh, what a failure it had been.
One hundred decks. Four thousand cards, not including Extra decks.
Gone in the blink of an eye.
He had been so sure, so confident. That damned King of Games, used a deck filled with the DARK, his deck was designed to counter the DARK, one deck o
I'm sorry, guys, but life's taken a very unexpected turn, and I can no longer find the time to actively participate in the group. I'll be resigning as both Alister and Kaiba.
Ciao.
It didn't matter than the sun didn't rise; the dark was my friend. Darkness hid you from the things that went bump in the night. It protected you from eyes that sought to make you suffer. And cry. It hid the tears, and offered comfort in that blackness. Besides, I didn't need the sun. Neither of us did. When you spend so long hiding in the darkness, you come to gauge twenty-four hour cycles, thus you're never asking if, by some horrendous twist of fate forces you to leave the dark, it's night or day.
Five days.
That's how long we had been here for.
He was stirring against me, so of course, I shifted and allowed him a place more comfortable
My bike was ablaze.
That could have been me...
My head.. It hurt, so much. So, so much.. Despite the helmet. And, my left side, was really.. I was bleeding. I could feel it. There was a lot of pain, but I was.. alive.
I was living.
I could have died..
The thought of that, made me sick. It was that sickness that brought me to my hands and knees, and I emptied the contents of my stomach over the gas-slicked pavement. Shock; I was slowly slipping into shock. I knew that. Recognized it.
Fire, the sound of heated metal twisting and screaming, the smell of burning fuel.
All of this, brought me back to that day in the field beyond the refuge