CHAPTER 26~ ANOTHER BATH OR ANOTHER ROUND?

Sathe stepped out of his shorts, following Verya into the cold water. A shiver travelled up his spine as the water covered him up to his shoulders, his toes tipping against the bed of the lake.

Verya was in front, her back turned to him, head held up as she stared at something he couldn’t seem to see. “What are you…staring at?”

Verya turned to him, pointing up at the sky and then at the nothingness before them. “It’s pretty, isn’t it?”

“What…? The moon? T-The water…?”

Verya shook her head. “Not exactly…the darkness seems so bright and beautiful in my eyes. It was on a beautiful night like this that I watched my mother bleed out on the earth…but somehow, I still enjoy the night…perhaps I feel like it’s the only connection left between me and her…but the shadows that follows me around, they comfort me, the whistling of the cricket and the wind, the silence…it’s always something I look forward to.”

“I don’t like the dark…it’s dark…but right now it doesn’t feel as dark and empty as it