[ Immediately, he thinks back to his conversation with John after Aaron first disappeared and his blood runs cold, a heavy, sickening weight in his gut.
She should be back in her pod by now though. That's what happens when someone dies here. But she's not. It's definitely enough that she should be dead.
His arms circle tightly around Aaron's middle, his head resting on his shoulder. Now he knows how the other side of this feels. He doesn't want Aaron to look at him, to know that the gravity of this situation is hitting him like a blow to the head. The small voice in the back of his head telling him that Aaron is here and he's fine so he needs to stop worrying about semantics is drown out by the cold truth of it all.
This place wasn't safe. Someone had killed Aaron here, and he couldn't do a damn thing about it. ]
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[ Immediately, he thinks back to his conversation with John after Aaron first disappeared and his blood runs cold, a heavy, sickening weight in his gut.
She should be back in her pod by now though. That's what happens when someone dies here. But she's not. It's definitely enough that she should be dead.
His arms circle tightly around Aaron's middle, his head resting on his shoulder. Now he knows how the other side of this feels. He doesn't want Aaron to look at him, to know that the gravity of this situation is hitting him like a blow to the head. The small voice in the back of his head telling him that Aaron is here and he's fine so he needs to stop worrying about semantics is drown out by the cold truth of it all.
This place wasn't safe. Someone had killed Aaron here, and he couldn't do a damn thing about it. ]