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"Talk to me, Aether, please."
Her brother scoffed at her, almost as if her request was that unsound. "What else is there to say? If you want to go, then go. But I am staying here, to finish what I started." The intensity of his gaze was harrowing, and she wondered what she did to deserve this kind of treatment.
"I can't just leave you behind! We were supposed to be together, always together- Why did you break that promise, that sacred bond, Aether?!" She huffed, grabbing him roughly by the shoulders. Perhaps shaking some sense into him would work. "Do I mean nothing to you anymore?! Is my name so dirty that you can't even say it?!"
A silence bloomed between them, dark and heavy. Filled with only the notion of their stoicism, pain and shattered hearts.
"There's nothing more to say."
And he left.