Several months earlier, inside a luxurious room, a vow had been made between a pet and its master…
Crack!
A sharp sound shattered the silence and cleared the haze from its mind. Its breathing grew heavy, and the adorable creature was pulled violently from its trance.
Where…?
It was a question far too vague for a head that felt just as muddled. The ticking of its heart began to race, but when the adorable creature touched its neck, its breath froze.
Where? Where is my collar?
The red gemstone was gone.
More precisely, it had shattered into thousands of pieces. So many that putting it back together was impossible. The adorable creature stared at the fragments scattered across the floor for a long while, watching them catch the pale light of the room.
Then it felt something inside itself go hollow.
Melancholy.
That was what the feeling was called.
