[The only sign of life Hazel gets out of him is his head turning warily to watch her as she moves forward. That well of energy he'd been drawing from fails him now; he doesn't even edge away until she's almost on top of him. He should move. He should care she's right there; the sting of betrayal makes his shoulders twinge with remembered pain. He doesn't.
As she falls to her knees, he lets his head slide back to stare at the bedspread so she can only see the edges of his face in profile, eyes half open. But he's physically alive, if emotionally close to dead. His chest moves with every shaky breath he takes. Now and then, he blinks.
Hazel has always seemed weird, with lines permanently crisscrossing her body like stitches on a rag doll that she had no good explanation for. A long time ago, she said something about an accident.. Tetsuo couldn't make himself pursue after that. His own accident saw to that.
Now, she looks even worse somehow, but Tetsuo's gotten used to Kaneda's inability to feel almost anything he - anything that happened to him. That may have killed a normal person, but Hazel wasn't normal. None of them were.
Except him; the resonator is off his left wrist. There's no use for something that cancels pain if there's no powers to cause it.
They stay that way for a while, quietly, painfully existing in each other's proximity.]
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As she falls to her knees, he lets his head slide back to stare at the bedspread so she can only see the edges of his face in profile, eyes half open. But he's physically alive, if emotionally close to dead. His chest moves with every shaky breath he takes. Now and then, he blinks.
Hazel has always seemed weird, with lines permanently crisscrossing her body like stitches on a rag doll that she had no good explanation for. A long time ago, she said something about an accident.. Tetsuo couldn't make himself pursue after that. His own accident saw to that.
Now, she looks even worse somehow, but Tetsuo's gotten used to Kaneda's inability to feel almost anything he - anything that happened to him. That may have killed a normal person, but Hazel wasn't normal. None of them were.
Except him; the resonator is off his left wrist. There's no use for something that cancels pain if there's no powers to cause it.
They stay that way for a while, quietly, painfully existing in each other's proximity.]