“I thought you would want revenge.”
Neku gives him a look, and then a grin both amazed and confused and laughing at him, and Joshua feels more alive than maybe he has ever been, even in his first moments as Composer, with half the secrets of the universe spread out before him.
“What makes you think this isn’t it?”
Death takes a Holiday - Signal to Noise by Twigcollins (via lydhasspoken)“People leave.” It’s hard to force the words out. This isn’t a secret he wants to give up, even if Joshua will figure it out anyway, if he doesn’t already know.
His mother left, so long ago. His friend did, and took everyone else with him. Shiki hasn’t betrayed him, Beat and Rhyme and Eri haven’t, but Neku can think of a thousand reasons why it’s still coming, why it has to be coming, when he can’t understand what he did to make it happen the first time.
“People find out who you are, who you really are, and then they leave.”
Before You Are - Signal to Noise by Twigcollins (via lydhasspoken)
