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"Here again?", a voice asked from behind Diana.
She didn't have to turn around to know who it was. He came here often, not that he had a choice. The null guardians search for him every day, here was the only place they didn't bother to look yet and that was precisely why she was there as well.
"I see you're here too. Once again.", she responded turning around to the boy she once met on the streets of New York, Kevin E. Levin.
His unnatural form, so unlike what he normally would look like, never seemed to bother her. Kevin knew if she was a normal girl she would have run away from him. Or maybe that was just the sexist and immature eleven-year-old speaking.
"Not like I have a choice, unlike you.", he said with a bitter undertone. "I still don't understand why you always come here."
"I like it here.", she shrugged, letting her legs dangle from the rock she was sitting on.
"It's terrible here.", Kevin replied, narrowing his eyes.
"Trust me, it's way worse where I'm from.", she said, an unsettling feeling spreading in her stomach. "Compared to that, the Null Void is peaceful, beautiful almost."
"Well, if you like it so much, why not stay?", the boy asked embittered.
He couldn't imagine any place being worse than the null void. He simply couldn't understand how someone would want to come here by choice.
"I can't...", Diana answered, her voice breaking at the end.
Not that Kevin noticed anyway, he was busy being mad at her and feeling sorry for himself. If only he wasn't so damn self-absorbed and oblivious, he would have noticed the way she held her arm close to her body as if it was wounded, as if she was hurt. He would have noticed the bruises, the cuts, the many signs suggesting the unspeakable.
"Same reason why you won't let me out of here?", he demanded heatedly.
The girl laughed, pissing him off even more. She did that a lot, laughing at other people's misery. Laughing at troubles she wished she had, instead of what she worried about day by day.
"Nah, that's because I don't trust you enough, Levin.", Diana teased but quickly became serious again. "But one day I will,I promise."