World Seed

We sat in the medbay, watching over Yin and Yang for a little over an hour. In that time, Tokemi had been sitting on my lap, looking with worry at the two sleeping girls until she finally fell asleep where she was sitting. In the end, I wound up holding her in my arms to make sure she didn’t fall off to the side.

The first to wake up was Yang, unsurprisingly. When she woke, her eyes slowly started to open, before she suddenly sat up abruptly and looked around. “What happened? Where’s Yin?” She asked in a fearful voice, before she saw her sister lying in the bed next to her.

“Shh… It’s alright. She’s just sleeping.” I spoke in a soft voice, trying not to disturb the loli in my lap. When she heard me, Yang slowly got up and walked over to Yin, putting a hand on the other woman’s head as if to confirm my words. Then, she seemed to slowly remember what had happened, and her shoulders began trembling.

“I… I killed them… didn’t I?” She turned around to regard me, her eyes watering.

Shaking my head, I answered honestly. “No, you didn’t. They were still alive. I finished it before we left.” I was in a rush to get back here, so I just lit the bodies on fire before we teleported out.

“But… that… that’s even worse, then…” She thought about the implication of what that meant. For them to live through how she twisted their bodies, would be an unending agony as they waited to slowly die.

I could see in her eyes that she was starting to feel fear as she looked down at her own hands. “They killed Yin. If you hadn’t done what you did, they would have killed me, you, and Tokemi as well. Thankfully, they didn’t know we could bring people back, or else we might have really lost her.” As I spoke, Sharon got up from her spot beside me and walked over to Yang, wrapping her in a soft embrace.

“It’ll be alright, Yang. We won’t make you do that again, and we’ll take care of the bastards that tried to kill our people.” She did her best to comfort Yang, just as Yin began to show signs of awakening. This was one of our first times actually using this ability, so I wanted to make sure there weren’t any unforeseen side-effects. Especially since the soul used to bring her back was the soul of an NPC bought from the gold market.