After waiting for what felt like an eternity, Bb finally returned.
"Why?" he demanded, the single word trembling with disbelief.
I looked back at him, confusion flickering across my face. Tilting my head, I regarded him with wide, innocent eyes.
"Why what?"
"Why did they choose to overlook your actions?"
"I don't know," I replied in a timid voice.
Bb muttered something beneath his breath. His voice was a tangled mess of desperation, anger, disbelief, and—
Longing.
A longing that should not have existed. A longing that should have been impossible.
"They overlooked your offence while all they did to—"
"Uhm—" I interrupted. "Mind you, this was not my offence. It was a failure on your part. Your inability to explain the rules. Your negligence. All for your own twisted amusement."
I paused.
"The amusement of watching a fate far more horrific than your own befall others."
My smile widened ever so slightly.
"Right?"
The butterfly went still.
Far too still.
Its eyes began to swell.
And swell.
And swell.
As though something behind them was desperately trying to escape.
The bulging spheres expanded beyond all proportion, growing larger than its own body. The sight was wrong. Unnatural. Like reality itself had miscalculated.
Then they ruptured.
The eyes burst with a wet pop, showering me with their contents.
For several seconds, neither of us spoke.
Eww.
