Isiah looked at Ciel deeply for a long time, the kid couldn't even hold eye contact with him, and that's why when he saw Isiah looking at him that way, he just started to look at the ground.
"Give me answers, so that i could help you to return home, okay?"
The kid shook his head then started to say:" I don't want to go home"
" Why is that? I know that you don't live here, so tell me …why are you here!"
Isiah at that moment wasn't aware of people's migration from other districts to district one.
"Did you run away from home? Is that it ? Tell me, boy !"
Isiah kept asking him questions so that he form a good idea about his life, at first he was going to ignore him but the moment that kid started to follow him he just forget the lines he drew around himself .
" Sir, i don't have a home…Not anymore"The kid answered with frustration.
" What do you mean by that ? "
"Because of the flood my house was destroyed weeks ago"
The kid looked like he was forcing himself to answer Isiah's question.
"It was a heavy rain, not like the rain we were used to…it happened fastly…"
" Which one is your district?"
Isiah bit his lower lip then said:" How come I never heard about it, when did this happen? And how did you come here? I am sure that you didn't come here all by yourself"
"I followed some people, they are here now"
"What's with the bruises?"
Ciel stopped talking immediately and Isiah felt like he had gone too far with his interrogation, he wasn't even considering taking him with him, yet he kept asking him all sorts of questions.
When Isiah finally stood up, he looked at him from above and said:" Now return to the place where you were staying for the past days, okay?"
The kid looked at Isiah with his eyes filled with tears that he was suppressing hardly, yet he didn't say anything to beg him to take him.
" Do you want me to take you to that place, because it is dark and you are afraid of going there alone?"
"No, i am not afraid, sir" Ciel replied firmly while he stayed in his place, he even continued to eat the last orange Isiah gave him.
When he didn't get a proper reaction, Isiah just kept on walking without even taking a last look at the kid he left in the middle of the woods.
His mind was at war, he did what he wanted to do, he got rid of a burden in the middle of an apocalypse, just another soul, that kid was just a number among others, but for some reason he was going crazy for leaving him in that place all by himself.
Isiah walked for ten minutes before he stopped in the middle of the woods, and started to look to Emperium as he always did when things got harder on him.
Up there, was the escape, he always kept reminding himself of that thought but not anymore.
When Adelita told him about the end of the leveling system, he thought that it was not fair from him, he just got his powers back but he wasn't able to prove himself.
Emperium was more impossible than it ever was to him, he looked up then looked down when reality hit him, then cursed after that.
The next thing he found himself doing was going back to the place where he left the kid .
With every step he kept on cursing, but when he got closer to that place, he stopped because he didn't want the kid to hear him saying something improper.
"Ciel" Isiah said while his expressions held a lot of anger, he was not angry because of the kid, but he was angry for his soft heart that kept on dragging him down his whole life.
The kid's blue eyes met his immediately, Ciel was crying silently while holding that last orange.
Apparently he stopped eating it the moment Isiah left him, he was just trying to be strong in front of him.
When Ciel saw Isiah again, he didn't care about his appearance, he just ran towards him not caring about anything ,and held on to his leg the moment he reached him.
"Aheee...Ahee…I thought you left …i thought that i am all by myself ..i am scared , sir …don't leave me here, take me with you"
Isiah felt terrible for knowing that he was the reason for his tears to fall, that little kid was so adorable, he thought of himself as a monster that made him cry.
For a second Isiah stood there motionless, and when he felt the kids fingers clenching into his clothes, he said while touching his golden hair:" Don't cry, Ciel"
The kid started to wipe his tears the moment Isiah said that, Isiah leaned towards him then said:" You can cry as you want, it is just that i feel bad when i see your tears, okay"
Ciel wiped his face immediately, then looked at him :" I am sorry, don't feel bad, sir"
Isiah was unable to communicate with him, because the kid was traumatized to the point where he was too selfless, which was not normal for a kid his age.
Isiah leaned on his knees and held onto the kid's arms as gentle as possible, then said with a smile on his face:" Ciel, i am not living a good life, i can't protect you from any danger, i can't give you food, cloths, a good home..i am not responsible to begin with…do you understand me, i think i am talking too much and i guess that you are too young to understand what i am saying"
Ciel looked into Isiah's eyes, then said:" I am a good kid" Read full story at novelꞁire.net
"I know you are, little one"Isiah said while patting his head.
" Please don't leave me, sir…i am a good kid"