He gripped the edge of the counter, looking far angrier than what he had the right to. It began to crack under his fingers.
“Tell me where he is.” He snarls.
Jack drifted back a bit, laughing weakly. “N-no! No no, you’re lying, t-this isn’t funny!” Jack hissed, drifting back further before shooting down the closest hallway, darting into every room, every hall, waves of frost following him as he grew more and more panicked.
He felt it, felt t in his chest, pounding in his chest, the emptiness, the nothing, but he’d never admit it aloud, never give anyone that knowledge that he felt himself breaking, crumbling, from the inside out.
Several patients and doctors alike rubbed their arms and hugged themselves as the same chill brushed past them. None of them knowing the silent heartbreak happening right beside them.
At the front desk, the receptionist cringed in the face of Arago, glancing down to see the splintering he’d caused and moving her hands away. “H-he passed away just before you entered…Forgive me. I-If you’d just have a seat, I’ll call the doctor in, and if it gives you closure, perhaps he can direct you to the morgue…I know how hard it must be. W-would you like me to ring in a priest as well?”
His body was rigid, tense, an unyielding force ready to change the law of nature. He remembered Ewan--of course he did, how could he forget the twin that sacrificed everything for him?- he remembered how that monster revived his brother with the cursed gift that was now his to use.
“...no.” He said, shoulders relaxing slightly as he let go of the counter. “Just let me see the body.”