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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UY4zobmito&ab_channel=Qonell]What was that?[/url]

Not fear, nor anguish. It was something else in Luke’s eyes. I looked deeply into them and once he returned my gaze after staring at his thumb, I saw it clearly.

I felt a shooting pain in my back, where my wings rested as I stood up from the gurney and stood face to face with Luke.

[color=9D36FF]“What do you mean?”[/color]

He probably just likes you.

No. This wasn’t that. I can see it in his eyes, it’s there right now! There’s no abject fear of breaking me, there’s hope. It’s hope and there’s nothing that’s going to stop me from grasping it.

I put my hands on Luke’s shoulders in order to steady myself. Carefully I steady my feet as they rest on the ground. I stare at Luke and it doesn’t even waver, not for a second.

[color=9D36FF]S“I’ll do it.”[/color]

I don’t know what it is yet. It doesn’t matter what it is. 

[color=9D36FF]S“Tell me what I have to do and it’ll be done.”[/color] I felt my legs buckle, but I shot my hand out towards my IV stand. It moved drastically due to it being on wheels but this time I caught myself and didn’t feel the cold tile on my side once more. 

I pushed myself to stand tall. Taller even than Luke, taller than Beryl, taller than Gratia and most certainly taller than I had been standing before. I was not going to let this chance at rising once more go by. Luke knew it too, by the look in his eyes. They were steady, as were mine. 

It was time.

Bianca Nuit would fly once more and there was not a god damned thing in this world that would stop me from doing so. 

Vitoria Dodici, my father, not even myself. 

Finally managing to stand back on Luke’s level I felt a tear trickle down my left cheek and swiftly approaching was a second on my right. But I didn’t even pretend to care. I simply stood there in front of Luke awaiting instruction on what would have to be done in order to regain my wings. I felt my bottom lip quiver, but I steadied it. There was not a thing in this world that could slow me down now.

[i]I fucking saw it in Luke’s eyes. And it was going to be mine.[/i]  


[color=9D36FF]"Let's do it now."[/color] I couldn't be more impatient. But now was not the time for courtesy.