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RESULT: (5) ❛ Have you ever been in love? ❜
A barren plateau panned endlessly across the horizon: no shrubs, no slopes, no hills. The land was a uniform gray, the horizon identical in every direction, with no moon or sun shining above, or any sign of life below. It would have been pitch black, but for the faint light of faraway stars, and even then it was uncomfortably dark. The only movement was the clouds of dust, sweeping across the flat earth like a black mist, thickening at times into a dense and blinding storm.
It was stumbling through one of those damned storms that they’d lost sight of the lions, and though Keith knew they couldn’t be far, there were no landmarks, no familiar constellations, and no way to orient themselves. Not in space, or in time— and it was the latter that was starting to weigh on him. How long had they been stuck there—?
Anything would’ve been better than sitting there, doing nothing; but if they walked away, they risked straying even further from the lions and ruining any chance of rescue. The lions could be tracked. Eventually, their teammates would rescue them—right?—and the closer they were to the lions, the better their chances of being found.
In his restlessness, Keith had run through all the stupid shit that lead up to this, the ways things could have gone differently, blaming himself, then Lance, and ultimately getting too tired to bitch or argue anymore. And once the fight went out of him, thoughts of his life before came streaming in. Ever since they’d discovered Blue, there’d been no time to reflect, no room in their war-torn lives for regrets.
Keith kept telling himself he didn’t miss Earth— how he’d never felt at home there; that there was nothing, no one to miss— but right now, he did. Parts of it, anyways. Hearing the waves on the beach where he’d grown up. Seeing the sun set over the mountains in Arizona. All the things he’d taken for granted; all the goals he’d never met, experiences he’d never had.
Keith’s soft voice broke the eerie silence, sounding almost calm in his exhaustion.
❛ Have you ever been in love? ❜
