i'm coming home

"Speech"

Bella laughed and Chai just blinked, shrugging as she spoke. Truth was Malachai didn't really feel all that attached to his missing sister, they had a missing brother too and as far as he was concerned he was closest with Panic, because she'd... y'know. Been there. He didn't really have an opinion on if either of his other siblings had left or been kept away from them outside of their control. He hadn't grown up with them in his life, and he certainly wasn't emotionally intelligent enough to even feel he'd lost anything because of that. "You're right it's been months... Here's a reminder, I'm Malachai, I think decorum is dumb and really don't care if I hurt anyone's feelings because I say what's on my mind."

That was it, a plain and simple truth, and true to his words it was what he felt, even if it was a little barbed, certainly not because he was trying to hurt his sister but because he just didn't have the empathy to understand how it might come across. He looked her over again. "What happened to you?" She really did look kind of like shit... but then a more pressing question. "Are you coming back?" Back to Ashen, back to the place he called home, back to their mother. That was an interesting question, Hela hadn't mourned her missing children for too long, of if she did it hadn't been in front of him and Panic, how would the woman even react?