Two icy blue eyes stared up at a grey metallic ceiling, the pupils at their centre dilated wide in the dim light of the room. 514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzPn7ROn05
Apollo sat up on his bed as a rushing sound filled his ears. He stuck his little finger into his left ear to try and alleviate the noise, wiggling it around vigorously. What a strange sensation, he thought. How would he get used to all this? The light. The sounds. The feelings. All the stuff in his head. It was all was so overwhelming. 514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrtSSJ4rO4
A shadow appeared at his feet, stretching from the square of light that shone through the window of his cabin door. With a subtle click, the door opened, and a tall thin man entered. Apollo winced as he switched on the light, a bright white dome that bulged from the ceiling above, like a milky zit.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCKgU7nLvl
The man was very pale, his skin much lighter than Apollo’s. His hair too was drained of colour, straight and thin on the top, slicked backed in a poor attempt to cover his scalp.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHuJAugWKz
“Do you feel anything?” he asked, walking towards Apollo. 514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfV97TlENh9
The man was tall but thin, his body framed in an old grey suit, stained in places with flecks of food that made him look both rough around the edges and dangerously angular at the same time, like an old rusty knife.
“Hungry. Very, hungry” Apollo replied quickly.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOtNSgcxy2
The man sat next to Apollo on his bed and stared into his eyes. The man too had blue eyes, only not as brilliant as Apollo’s. 514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6suhAfLSs
“No, I mean about her. Do you feel her presence, is she awake yet?”
“I don’t know.” 514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5NXWNQFMf
After he’d woken up it’d been the first thing the man had asked him. Where is she? Do you know!? His voice had been urgent. Apollo hadn’t known what to say. He’d woken up in the dark and the cold. He was confused and hadn’t known where he himself was, let alone where whoever she was.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtti8NTfAl
“You will know,” he said, standing up. “When she wakes up. She’s going to be confused and overwhelmed, just like you were. Except I’m not going to be there to help her like I was for you. But you will feel her soon, Apollo. Just like you feel your hunger. Only fainter… for now.”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlYMZu6xt2
“I will feel what she is feeling?” The man had told Apollo this before, but he still did not understand. How could he feel what another person felt?514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cX7XqZjuy
It was true, he could guess what the man felt. Not that he could put it into words. It was a kind of a knowledge. An understanding of what was going through his thoughts, boiled down into a feeling of his own. If Apollo had tried to pin it down at that moment, then perhaps he would have said tiredness or anger but also determination and hope too. But for Apollo such words didn’t really capture how these feelings danced around each other. Instead he had come to think of what he sensed as more akin to a colour. Colours were more exact. Blurred, but nuanced in their description.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjFH5dVb14
But understanding what the man was feeling was reliant on seeing him. How was he supposed to know anything about a girl he had never even met, or even seen?514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfojAmhY7Dw
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“You are linked Apollo,” replied the man. “You will always have the ability to know what is happening to her.”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkapaPHvGma
“But how?”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6vfcc9R0v
“I cannot explain that to you yet, I can only tell you that you will understand when it happens.”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5TGdAJqhg
“And then what?”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFazYAFt6z4
“And then we set out to find her, before someone else does.”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUDBM8tzC7
The man smiled at Apollo and held out his hand. “Come,” he said, abruptly. “Let’s eat. I’ve something I think you’ll like. They used to make it back in the old days, it’s called beans on toast.”514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gb9hSs9XX
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One eye opened, and then other.514Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYewRjmhom9
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