Location: in the rubble
Present: Rhys & Celeste ( @savagekxds )
It had been days. Weeks. Hours. Years. Since the battle. Rhys wasn’t sure. He’d lost track of time. He hadn’t been sleeping - but also, he had. There were days when he hadn’t gotten out of bed. And then there were nights where he didn’t go back to it.
Celeste was gone. Missing. And though he’d been nowhere near the scene, though Celeste had always been her own person capable of her own choices, Rhys couldn’t help but blame himself. It had been his idea to come home to England. Maybe if they were still on the road, she’d be alive.
No. No, she wasn’t dead. He refused to believe that. He was a magician, for fuck’s sake. He made things appear out of nothing and defied reality and read thoughts! If the audience believed hard enough, he escaped near death. Maybe if he believed hard enough, Celeste could too.
He kicked at a piece of rubble, frowning down at it like it was the cause of all his troubles. Maybe if he read its mind, he’d see how it broke free from the building it had been a part of. His frown faded as realisation dawned upon him. He was a legilimens. He could read minds. Maybe if he reached out, he could find Celeste’s. He reached up to touch his scarf - one of Celeste’s, stolen from her closet - and closed his eyes. His mind opened, slowly expanding outwards as it searched for someone else to connect with.
‘Come on, Celeste,’ he thought to himself, sending his will out ever further into the battered and broken streets around him. ‘Help me find you.’