✠ I miss you.
“….”
It was just a simple phrase, something that could have been unremarkable, yet it struck Tesilid’s heart with an intense force he couldn’t understand.
No matter how long he looked at it, the warmth it stirred wouldn’t fade.
Tesilid carefully folded the neatly torn piece of paper and tucked it inside his coat, gazing up at the distant night sky.
Words he couldn’t bring himself to write slipped quietly from his lips.
“I miss you too.”
He longed to see her. There was so much he wanted to say when they met again.
He wanted to convey everything in his heart in person, through words, not letters. For now, he decided to save the rest of their correspondence for another time.
‘I’ll have to find a way out of here as quickly as possible…’
His sea-blue eyes scanned his surroundings, and his face, which had been softened by the thought of her, returned to its usual, impassive expression.
The environment around him was exceedingly unpleasant.
The ground was littered with debris from unidentifiable structures and the corpses of monsters, while…