Paths: Changes×Chances

chapter 10

After the figure took a step back and walked out of the room, leaving it alone

It was confused, but then a shock of electricity ran through its skull, speech came out of its mouth,  it didn't know how to speak

The sounds were "[special soldier A-017] transfer to <untit> F-161-F-165...[pawn soldier F-162] move to <non completed unit> G-21-G-25 as the new G-25"

It wasn't the first time speech came out of its mouth. It didn't understand why its speech was so much more robotic than the figure's

didn't matter

It laid down on the floor, crawling to the weird rectangular object in the corner

"Book"

It was the sound the figure did when it gave them the object

It had some weird simbols on it, but they didn't care. The images were so beautiful

They didn't know what the images were about, but they seemed to be something different than metal

They didn't like metal

They liked the book, it wasn't like metal, metal was hard, cold...and without color

The book was soft, and the leather cover was warm, colorful

It was all they had

It's all they'll ever have

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Gon was resting on the grass, relaxing on the lakeshore

He had his arms behind his head and seemed to be sleeping

They had been in the reserve for two days now

A giant animal, three meters long, resembling a bear started to close in on the boy

It's step were silent, it's figure was massive but hidden, a predator ready to leap on the prey

The animal jumped, Gon did not open its eyes, then....

The two rolled onto the ground for several meters and Gon eneded up having the full weight of the creature on top of him, he opened his eyes and started to gasp and move as the animal licked it's face

"Ah, get off! Come on, Eva, this isn't funny! OhmygodIcan'tbrethe!" Eva flipped over and brought Gon onto her stomach and started to lick Gon's hairs until they took a completely different shape

Gon carefully moved his hands and pushed against the animal's chest, releasing himself from her grip and falling on the grass below

Eva turned around and tried to jump on him again, with her tongue sticking out of her mouth playfully

Gon suddenly stood up straight and shouted, "SIT!"

Eva interrupted herself midleap and pushed her head down, sliding on the ground on her face. When she stopped, she brought her back down as well and laid on her stomach in front of Gon

He shrugged "dammit...I couldn't hear you coming" he turned around and started walking to the little curtain Kite had brought, as he did he mumbled to himself "I used to be able to hear animals coming even in my sleep, what happened to me?" 

Gon entered the curtain to find Leorio inside, sleeping

Alluka and Killua had gone back to the facility to ask for a second curtain and something to distillate the lake's water

Kite was off in the southeast side of the facility to research specific spiecies of reptiles that had caught his interest

So Gon had offered to stay with Leorio at the curtain to make sure no animal would destroy it by accident