Chapter 483: Casper’s guild
Casper was barely holding it all together.
He’d been the perfect person to say goodbye, he’d gotten all of the ducks in a row, he hadn’t let himself crack. He couldn’t let himself crack.
Not until he got word that he arrived safely, Rhys was down in the Medical Bay, and no news had arrived for anything else. No news about Theodore, no news about the E.A.G., no news about Guide Jameson.
Casper finally gave himself a moment. He locked himself in his office in the tower, the Guiding Division, and just broke down. He felt like everything he had worked for was slipping through his fingers and he had no way to stop it. There was nothing he could do.
Everyone was making their own choices, listening to themselves, and Casper? Casper had put his feelings on the backburner because there was no space for his right now. This wasn’t about him. It was about the two pillars that held up this Guild, and how one had gone into a gate that had only shown up once before, thinking he’d get out with hopes and prayers, and the other had gone to sleep in favour of losing his mind and hurting everyone and everything around him when he surged.
To Casper, it was a when, not an if. He believed in Kellen. He had faith in Kellen.
He had no faith in that fucking gate.
It was swallowing up their happiness, their joy. The first thing it did was lie, and it was Kellen who caught it. They had all thought it was just going to be a jungle biome gate, but then the funky colours had snuck in and no one had thought the wiser. Casper believed that the D.E.C. might have misled them on that so that they could make it someone else’s problem, but he couldn’t view everything with an acronym badly just because of the E.A.G.
Even if he had less than stellar experiences with them.
Then, it had swallowed up their people and literally spat out their bones and body parts like an actual monster. Then, it had begun to poison everyone and everything. It was a relief that the Peach Guild had someone on their team who could work with poisons, but it felt like that research just wasn’t able to move fast enough given how big of a threat this was.
And then...the fucking thing had surged, swallowing up their futures, Kellen’s sister, while a monster raid happened on the front lines induced by the E.A.G. Casper just wanted the Guild to catch a fucking break after the attack on Kellen and his Father’s life.
That didn’t happen at all. Especially with Theodore gone from the Guild. Casper’s chest ached.