"Hehehe~"
The laughter came from Aether.
His head slowly lifted.
A wicked grin stretched across his face.
His body began to rise from the ground, not by standing, but by flowing upward as though gravity had forgotten that he existed.
Darkness leaked through the cracks in his skin before crawling across his body once more, forming a twisted shell around him.
Yet it was thinner than before.
The darkness no longer looked like it was consuming him.
It looked like it belonged to him!!
"You call me a coward... after leaving me to rot in the dark?" Aether chuckled, his voice warped by something far deeper than anger.
"And now you drag me back into the light and pretend you came to save me? Tell me, bitch... who the hell gave you the right? Crawling back to 'save' me?"
His grin widened.
"Bring me back? You wanted me back... Look closely, then. I'm here. I'm fucking back." His grin widened.
"So... what are you going to do now?"
