[center][fancypost=borderwidth=0px; width: 450px; text-align: justify;][font=arial]god, lance felt awful. the savannah had been running for what seemed like hours, fleeing from the site of shiro's death. it was cowardly, that much he knew, to abandon the rotting body of one of his closest friends, but what could he do? it wasn't like the pale feline could bring him back to life. as much as it hurt, this wasn't a fairy tale, there was no magical kiss, no true love and no prince charming to save the day. it was just lance. helpless, tiny lance who couldn't even save the man who'd taken him in all those years ago, who'd let the most beautiful man in the world slip through his paws like water not once, but twice now. there'd been nothing he could do, not a god. damned. thing.
so lance had run. he'd fled like the damn coward he was and hadn't stopped until he was deep within the mountains, until numbness hit him and the royal finally let himself break. wail after wail tore themselves from his throat, echoing around the cliffs and ridges in a haunting refrain of agony; a symphony composed of loss and pain, of anger and grief, of love that he would never get the chance to express. the feline's voice gave out somewhere around dusk, and he was left a shivering mess of emotions; by then it was all to easy to succumb to fatigue. cold mountain air amplified the numbness lance felt, both physically and mentally, guiding him into a fitful sleep full of blood and robotic faces.
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