✥ Continued from here. ✥ ✥ @lunaseer ✥
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Haruto shot bolt upright when he heard the voice, so tuned into it that he recognized it immediately. His head swiveled to face the other and his mouth hung open, caught silent for a moment. Was this the person he'd been waiting for all this time? Had God finally returned to him?
But... The person standing before him, he had a hard time believing this was a deity of any kind. Just as a light had shimmered in his eyes, just as quickly did they dull again, and his shoulders sagged. Had he been taken for a fool? This whole time? Was it all for nothing, even his deepest hopes?
"You're..." He fell back against the cushion seated before the corroded alter, and his wings pulled up to wrap around his shoulders, as if shielding him. "You're not... You were a lie, too?"
He didn't have the control of himself here that he did in the waking world. He couldn't keep his emotions in check, and so a stray tear rolled down his cheek. He was losing everything. Every string he had that connected him to Heaven. Even his God was false. What was left for him in these empty pages?
