[RL with Zechs, Tyki and Rufus]

[clockmaster]

Hakuba shivered, the weather wasn't any better now than when he left Gaia a few days ago. He nearly killed himself driving the iced road, he still needs more driving lessons. The detective couldn't use the flying broom, he gave it to that demon woman, Trish, anticipating that Elphaba would not mind. He imagined that the witch would symphatize with another woman who was being hunted like her, and, after all, the broom will fly back to it's original owner if something goes wrong. If not, he would just have to deal with another psychopathic friend.

The boy realy hoped that all was going well on the Ark...Tyki was really alive, and he remembered Zechs and the community. Such a relief. Hakuba was still worried and a bit scared, but damn him if he was going to left that kind of emotions to take control. Hakuba was in front of Zechs's door now, he had the keys of the apartmen, but he hesitated. Zechs was less than joyful when he prevented him to go to his lover's side for the second time. Knowing that trying to trying to delay the inevitable was useless, he opened the door carefully.

"Zechs?"

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Zechs looked away, unable to meet Tyki's expression. He wanted to withdraw as well, but he was kind of holding the Noah upright. But betraying that inner vulnerability, his hands tensed briefly on Tyki's nightshirt again, before he realized what he was doing, and undid his grip.

"It told me nothing!" Zechs admitted, for the first time, even to himself. Without a clear enemy or mission, and with all of the information from the forum, all he was able to get were nightmares. As much as he was drawn to the system besides. "I ... I knew something must be wrong, for you to return. Yet there - there was nothing I could have done! I couldn't merely sit and wait, helpless. But ... the ZERO could do nothing, as much as I tried, and then ..."

He shuddered. Perhaps given another day or so, and he would be back at the ZERO again, like a dog to a bone. Or if Tyki hadn't come back, he would likely be lost to the system again, trying to convince himself he could make it work. But there were so many conflicting emotions within his mind right now. Hatefully, he said, "I was going to perfect the system. Yet I was not going to let it destroy my person counter productively. I halted tests this morning. Yet ... when you ... I had heard you were captive ..."

Bitterly, he said, "The Detective has destroyed it, besides. Will that not please you?"

All of that anger within was visible now.