Epilogue
The cemetery was quiet, the rows of headstones standing in silent vigil. At Cato’s grave, Kiel sat pressed up against the back of the stone, one leg stretched out in front of him, the other tucked close to his body. He hadn’t moved in hours, blue eyes simply staring off into nothingness, his mind somewhere far, far away.
Our leader, reduced to this… this haggard husk, all because of the man buried beneath my feet.
How easy to push all the blame off on a dead man, but if Riah taught me anything, it was to respect the dead—even though the notion was idiotic and senseless.
So, no. Cato wasn’t entirely to blame for Electric Five’s downfall.
It was all of us.
For every decision we made since the doctors gave Rin six months to …show more content…
“Out of all things… I never…” he stopped, shaking his head roughly, as if trying to dispel his thoughts.
I stared at the headstone, reading the epitaph that we’d all agreed on a long time ago—planning had always been our specialty as children, and we had planned for everything.
Our anchor; our protector; our brother in everything but blood.
Still, even with all the niceties, Cato’s grave would always be tainted. People would know what he had done. To them, Yin and Cato were one and the same. They didn’t know what he had gone through. They didn’t know he had protected the four of us; they didn’t know his father had been a violent man; and they most certainly didn’t know the amount of kindness the man was capable of. No, they didn’t know anything but the cold hearted killer he had turned into.
I sighed, stuffing my hands into my jacket pockets. “Where…” Kiel’s voice came out scratchy from disuse. “Where did they send Rin?”
“I convinced the Council Rin was mentally unstable,” he tipped his head back, a bitter smile crossing his lips. “It wasn’t exactly the hardest thing to do, either. Especially after a representative from Wonderland Asylum deemed him ‘unfit for prison
The cemetery was quiet, the rows of headstones standing in silent vigil. At Cato’s grave, Kiel sat pressed up against the back of the stone, one leg stretched out in front of him, the other tucked close to his body. He hadn’t moved in hours, blue eyes simply staring off into nothingness, his mind somewhere far, far away.
Our leader, reduced to this… this haggard husk, all because of the man buried beneath my feet.
How easy to push all the blame off on a dead man, but if Riah taught me anything, it was to respect the dead—even though the notion was idiotic and senseless.
So, no. Cato wasn’t entirely to blame for Electric Five’s downfall.
It was all of us.
For every decision we made since the doctors gave Rin six months to …show more content…
“Out of all things… I never…” he stopped, shaking his head roughly, as if trying to dispel his thoughts.
I stared at the headstone, reading the epitaph that we’d all agreed on a long time ago—planning had always been our specialty as children, and we had planned for everything.
Our anchor; our protector; our brother in everything but blood.
Still, even with all the niceties, Cato’s grave would always be tainted. People would know what he had done. To them, Yin and Cato were one and the same. They didn’t know what he had gone through. They didn’t know he had protected the four of us; they didn’t know his father had been a violent man; and they most certainly didn’t know the amount of kindness the man was capable of. No, they didn’t know anything but the cold hearted killer he had turned into.
I sighed, stuffing my hands into my jacket pockets. “Where…” Kiel’s voice came out scratchy from disuse. “Where did they send Rin?”
“I convinced the Council Rin was mentally unstable,” he tipped his head back, a bitter smile crossing his lips. “It wasn’t exactly the hardest thing to do, either. Especially after a representative from Wonderland Asylum deemed him ‘unfit for prison