SilverNight wrote:I don't know, Hope, Destiny thought, blinking at Michael in confusion. Her hair fluttered in the wind as she stood still and silent. The words hadn't quite sunk in yet.
I lost my job.
Not King anymore? What did that mean for him, then? For all of them?
She frowned. Her mouth opened, but then no words came out, and she closed it again, feeling strangely helpless. Destiny knew this news would have come eventually, but she hadn't expected it to be this soon. And she never once would have thought they would be spoken with happiness.
Maybe it had always been a burden. Maybe all she'd seen before was the power, without remembering the price for holding on to it.
She wondered if it would cost them someday for him to let it go.
Beside her, Natalia was similarly still and silent, staring at Michael. Her mouth twitched uncertainly into a smile for a second, not matching the confused line of concern traced across her forehead. "What d..." She trailed off a moment, then shook her head slightly as if clearing it and finished, "What do you mean?"
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