He has threatened to strangle someone before, but he never actually did it. He’s not feeble but he can barely punch someone without breaking a bone. People die and there’s nothing Shion can do because he grew up in a place where death only occurred at the end of one’s life and not in the middle.

Rat won’t hesitate to kill someone but Shion is a different kind of person and although he’s never wanted to force his ideals upon anyone, he’s tired of being so underestimated that Rat never wants to take him outside.Īnd yet he knows that the outside world is dangerous, because if it isn’t then the scars and wounds that Rat has are going to need an explanation. Shion is not saving anyone by sitting in the dank hole they call a home, surrounded by dusty first editions and creaking bookshelves. Shion knows that what Rat says is the truth, that if he goes with him then he’s nothing but a burden, but Shion also knows that he is a kinder, more gentle soul than Rat and if they were to go out together they could even save a life. It’s always been like this, red on gray, no words spoken between them. Rat and Shion fall into silence, eyes locked in an ever tense battle between the right opinion and the other right opinion. “What workload?! There’s nothing to do here but feed the rats!” If you stay behind like I keep asking you, then the workload will be lightened-” “No, you would've gotten hurt and I would be stuck taking care of both of us. “But if you’d just taken me with you, then you wouldn’t have gotten hurt-”

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