For the first time, Ace felt like he was getting something which he’d been certain of having lost forever. After Blue’s death, he’d feel into such a decline that everybody had left him behind. His best friends. His so-called girlfriend. All his pals.
Now, his chest swelled with an alien emotion. Hope.
Seeing Theia fight him off like an equal seemed to fill up the void which had settled inside him. He felt alive again. More alive than he’d felt in longer than he could remember.
Like the same soul, their bodies moved in perfect harmony, as they completed the warm-up exercises for beginner for the third time. Each time, she improved on the mastery of the weapon.
“You ever did this before?” he asked as she swirled the nunchaku in the same way he had just taught her. They were still cove
