"...Yea."

Echo didn't reply.

After a bit, Echo held out her arm to stop Time from going further. The monster stared at the two.

Echo very slowly moved, inching along. The monster did the same, still staring at the two. It was a bit strange, in honest opinion.

Yepp, and it's using its eyes to stare lol. Echo is making sure to stay far from it and is still inching along.

Eventually (in a painfully slow way), the monster had passed by, now not staring at them but going on it's way to do who knows what.

Echo sighed, looking at Time, "...T-thank you for, uhm, not attacking it."

It doesn't show any signs of coming back.

"W-well, let's, uh, let's con...continue..."

Echo then swayed on her feet, catching herself on the cave's wall.

She doesn't look so well, actually. Echo looked extremely tired, sweat glistening in the flashlight's light, which she had dropped on the ground. Echo was struggling to stand, having to use both hands to hold herself up on the wall. The bandages on her now visble injured hand are bloody, and her hand had swollen more.

If Time looked at the ground, Echo had trailed bloody footprints, her cloth boot looking to be damp in dark red.

Echo started to have a coughing fit, worse than the one before.


(Echo: Let's continue!

Me: Absolutely not)

While everything was not fine, Echo rejected, "E-everything is fine! N-not much of injuries."

Okay, yeah, sure, says the one who has acid burns and is poisoned, adding along with a burning fever.

"No! Everything is fine!"

Panic was starting to raise in her voice, becoming more clear on her face. Maybe it was from the shock of being found out. Maybe it was because Echo didn't know what to do. Maybe it was because she was now scared of Time, a sudden though of 'He could kill me if he wanted to. I have no way of defending myself.' seeping into her mind.

"I'm f-fine! Fine! I'm fine!"

Echo' wings puffed up as she pushed herself from the wall, stretching out aggressively. It was clear that she was trying to not look fearful, but the tears in her eyes gave it all away. Echo, for some strange reason, truly believed Time was going to kill her. Maybe it was the high fever.



If any child is caught ill, execute them immediately. We can't have sickness spreading.

Yes sir!



"I'm fine! I'm honestly fine!" Echo kept repeating like a broken record, eventually bringing a hand to her mouth to stop herself from throwing up. She swayed a bit.

"Let's continue! Let's continue! I'm... I-I'm fine!"

Echo was on the edge of having a meltdown.

Probably the fever.

Time looked onto Echo with what seemed almost an impossible look to read.

He started to step up closer to Echo, giving this long sigh.

"Do you wanna know why, why I did this?" He asked

"Uhm... Hello?" Time asked, kneeling down to her level.

Time had noticed how she's reacted and to be honest, he wouldn't be surprised if she suddenly lunged for him, so he was sure to be prepared for that and light on his feet.

((Dw Time has a supposedly bad backstory, like all characters, but he just doesn't show it))

Time sighs again, gently taking the quivering blade and lowering it, "Take a seat." He gently motioned and lightly pushed to set her down, his words seemed to have a different, tone behind them, one much more caring, "Take deep breaths, please."

"Hey. Don't do that." Time slapped her uninjured hand out of the way with his non-gauntlet hand, "Stop rambling."

Last edited by Time (9/08/2020 11:37 pm)