Death, Devotion, Dissonance Chapter 35 - Spoils

Later that day, Evin was sitting on his bed, with a stack of pillows supporting his back. Silver glitter surrounded his head, as Evin tried his best to create a thought in his head. Of course, it wasn't that he was struggling to create a normal thought, he was trying to give birth to a thought that could be heard by the voice inside him.

He was occupied with this task for the better part of the evening, making good use of the ti when Arza was absent from the room - the boy was sleeping in another dorm room, enjoying a sleepover among his newly made friends. Not that Evin cared.

The voice, on another corner of Evin's head, was playing around with a different patch of silver energy. Sotis Evin would see it take on different shapes, different sizes and even different colors. The voice was trying to create clearer images or sharper shapes out of them, but was seemingly failing. Evin could only see resemblances of items on these shapes, like how a shape of a cloud looked like one thing or other.

the voice suddenly ordered, dispelling the silver that cluttered inside the room.

Evin didn't know how he was supposed to recover from this. He could practically see the smug face forming on the voice's wrinkled, ugly face – that was the face he had granted the voice – and all that smugness was directed towards him and him only.

'How could I have said that?' he thought with despair, imagining the endless mocks and jabs that would co forth from this exchange. 'I just confessed I think of only one thing to his ten and even that takes twice the ti too!"

"How are you able to share your calmness, and whatnot in the first place?" Evin asked.

'I must steer the conversation away from this topic,' he was thinking decisively, though part of him knew that the voice never forgot about things. Just listen to it speak of his encounter with the mad doctor, as if the event had happened only yesterday.

The voice sounded quite sad all of a sudden. Evin didn't know why. As far as he was concerned, today was a great day. For starters, he didn't die, and he received five World Shards during the process. And the voice seed quite happy with the outco as well. Until now, at least.

the voice turned cold.

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