Life Without You

The clarification of Chinera missing Viper too was less strange than could have been expected. He was sort of relieved but in no obvious way. From an outsider looking in, Cerberus may have seemed to come from a broken home. But that was not the case at all. Not to him. Everyone cared for him more than he could ask for, his mother, his aunt, his father, Aliana and Dalila. There was no reason for him to hate the life he was born into, and he would never regret this way of life.

Not really knowing that the voices were bound to him, or maybe just to his blood as it was Chimera’s, his head was able to pick up off the ground while his eyes wandered the room. Only a hint to what he was experiencing as he was starting to question the reality due to Chimera’s reaction. He took too long to respond as he bit his tongue, Chimera continuing on but no doubt would he not let the subject go.

"Nuada." Cerberus quietly corrected his father, not knowing this truth through Viper’s time as his breathing mother. He was more intent than he had been in the last few moments, but his emotions nearly stale aside from the rim of tears he felt just being this close to his father. "Her name was Nuada, she comes to see me sometimes." He didn’t hold fear in telling Chimera this, and it didn’t scare him that it was happening. "She doesn’t want to talk about what happened."

While Cerberus could understand the difference in feeling love towards himself or Viper, he wasn’t mad by what Chimera stated to him. If Viper had hurt or killed him, she would have suffered more than she had. It may have been justified, but he also couldn’t help this internal cringe and burn of thinking that Chimera would have willingly slaughtered someone that Cerberus himself had cared for so much. A sign of how much he was like his father maybe. Though he held the knowledge of understand the justification behind it. "I love you too."

"Cerberus Klein"