The boy actually makes a sound when the wall breaks open- a sort of trill of surprise, gutteral in the back of his throat- but he doesn't shrink away or try to run. If anything, he remains frozen in place as the dust gives way to the millions of stars blinking in the night sky overhead. Stars that he hasn't seen in...
Well. At the point he is now, he's not sure he remembers ever seeing them. He must have, at some point, for them to feel as familiar as they do.]
A...ah...
[It's also the first time he makes a sound like that, an almost concrete vocalization leaning towards speech as he steps towards the opening. He doesn't even hear the guards running their way now, drawing their weapons as they make their way down to the chambers they'd ended up in.]
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The boy actually makes a sound when the wall breaks open- a sort of trill of surprise, gutteral in the back of his throat- but he doesn't shrink away or try to run. If anything, he remains frozen in place as the dust gives way to the millions of stars blinking in the night sky overhead. Stars that he hasn't seen in...
Well. At the point he is now, he's not sure he remembers ever seeing them. He must have, at some point, for them to feel as familiar as they do.]
A...ah...
[It's also the first time he makes a sound like that, an almost concrete vocalization leaning towards speech as he steps towards the opening. He doesn't even hear the guards running their way now, drawing their weapons as they make their way down to the chambers they'd ended up in.]