"W-wh-wHy..."
Nephis's mind nearly went blank at the question that came from sunless's mouth. In all reality the question caught her off guard and unprepared so much so an involuntary answer came out "wh-what?" she replied in a shaky tone back at the shadow in front of her.
But before she could ever process what just came out of her mouth sunless spoke up in a murderous tone replying in a shaky but coherent way ."I... Said why?" Nephis looked up at sunless with a confused look on her face staring at him for what felt like years and replied."Why what?"
Even though she knew the meaning behind the question sunless asked her she still needed clarification. No matter how deep there bond ran at this moment she could not tell what was going on inside the man's mind.
Sunless now looking down at nephis with an expression of disbaleaf paused for a moment but just for a moment but that one moment felt like an eternity for the girl under his cold gaze. Then his expression changed from one of disbaleaf to one of pure unrestrained rage towards the girl in front of him.
When nephis looked at his face she felt a small chill at the back of her neck and the shadows began to deepen all while her now lowered hands began shaking, she was terrified. Not because sunless was mad. Not because he was now holding her down. But because the same look sunless was giving her was the same look he would give to nightmare creatures he wanted dead, but not just dead no but ripped apart and torn to shreds slowly but surely by his own hands in the most excruciating way possible for a mundane person to invision. He was now looking at her as an enemy instead of the allies they've been all this time.
As the slow realization dawned on nephis a slow but steady grip tighted around her neck . Looking back she saw the sunless's avatar with the same enraged expression as the one in front of her begin gritting his teeth together, so much so that it looked like he would crack them just by that alone. And then responded in a low impatient growl " oh I don't know ... Like how about why did you rush to complete our third nightmare prevening me from getting rid of [ Shadow Bond ]."
As those words came from sunless's mouth nephis's mind started to race and her throat began to tighten causing her to involuntary swallow the saliva that had been building up in there. As she tried to speak the words died on her tongue and her lips became dry without giving a response to sunless.
As sunless perched on top of nephis waiting for a response as nephis's mouth parted and closed unable to provide one. But luckily for her sunless was a man of many things some being infamy,secrecy, strength, deceit, and honesty but out of all of those things the rightful heir of death was he was nothing but patient. After all that was the very nature of a divine shadow such as himself no matter how much one ran, how much one pleaded, prepared, and struggled to survive shadow was always there waiting and when the time was right shadow came like a farmer in the summer season ready to collect his harvest, and so sunny waited and waited and waited until finally a sound came from her mouth.
As nephis finally managed to calm her racing mind down she took a moment to ponder what she was going to say to him keeping an alouf expression on her face . And after what felt like an eternity her mouth opened and in a hesitant but stern and steady voice she began explaining. " Wh..when we came back to the chain breacker after scouting out the shore of verge and noticed you were gone we found Cassy crying, I asked her why but she wouldn't say."
When nephis spoke these words sunless continued to look at her and raised his brow ,but keept his mouth closed giving her the signal to continue and so she did." After a bit she told me all of it." Nephis paused for a moment to gauge sunnys reaction then quickly continued. " The weapon against fate, how she found away to remove your true name, and the reason she helped you with pulling off this stunt in the first place."
Sunny listening to this thinking nephis was done opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by her." She ... Also told me how after all this was done nobody would remember you... About how every trace,proof and every memory of you would be gone, erased from existence entirely." After saying this there was a long pause between both of them with the ever so present murderous rage on sunless's face and the calm yet tense expression of Changing Star.
As nephis's cold calm grey eyes began to water she stared at sunless and attempted to speak from her heart despite her humanity being burned away from her flaw she managed to speak in a tone that almost sounded like sobbing " I.. I didn't want to lose you. I couldn't allow or afford another important person in my life to be taken away from me." As she spoke these words tears began streaming down her cheeks from her eyes. " First it was my mother and grandfather in North America, then my father after his fourth nightmare, and then my grandmother and.... I.. can't bare to lose you to sunless not now and not ever because..." When she got to that final part, a piece of her nesseld deep inside her soul came out as if speaking for her ." It's Because I love you sunless...."
When thoee words came from nephis's lips sunless's expression shifted slowly but surely from that of murderous rage to melencolly and a deep frown fell upon his face.
Feeling a shift in the mood nephis continued on telling him more and more of her true feelings in hopes it will calm him down." I love you so much that seeing you hurt or injured in any way makes me crazy. It makes me want to go pick you up and take you in to my embrace and never let anyone put their hands on you let alone touch you ever again."
As she spoke those heartfelt words sunless's demener continued to change from a frown not to a slow creeping blush. Hearing what she was saying about her feelings towards him was quickly making him not only lose his composure but also the murderous rage that he had shown previously and albeit very slowly the choke hold he had put her in was begining to lossen up.
Nephis continued on with her deranged almost obsessive ramblings about her love for sunless causing his all ready pale rose tinted face to become deeper causing him to finally attempt to stop her and get the conversation back on track." Neph.... I understand please can we get back on track please."
But sadly that was not enough to dim the now raging inferno known as nephis's passion. All the held back feelings all the words she wanted but couldn't say from the forgotten shore to now ,they all came bubbleing up to the surface like an active volcano." I love your eyes, your hair, your cunning and ruthless plans and your unwillingness to die , I love everything thing that makes you, you. Sunless out of everyone in the whole world two worlds even you are my most prized, precious and important possession."
As nephis finished her whole hearted confession to sunless she finally managed to begin to calm down. Her breathing which was sparatic and frenzied now ragged and course. Her chest now riseing and falling with each breath she felt a sudden chill down her spine. Not the piercing cold of Antarctica no it was something else something deeper. As she looked around her she noticed the shadows became deeper and darker. She couldn't get a good look at them before she felt it, sunless's choke hold on her began to tighten again and her throat began to feel sore.
' wa...what's going on' she thought but before she could get her thoughts in order she glanced up to see sunless's face now more enraged than ever and heard him repeat in a low quite hiss "Possession?"
That's when nephis realized her mistake.