Piece 02: Unspeakable
Piece 02: Unspeakable
Theme: Silence
It was quiet.
Eerie quiet. Far too quiet for a house with a six year old human brat in it.
Joshua didn’t say anything as he observed his new housemate. Neku was playing with some blocks that Sanae had brought over. Joshua watched as the colorful tower went up only for it to come tumbling down. The collapse of his tower didn’t hinder Neku who didn’t seem upset at all that his hard work had just fallen to pieces. Rather Neku merely started stacking the blocks again.
It was odd. Neku had been here for three days, and boy hadn’t said anything. He made sounds; cries from nightmares, laughter of tickles, and whimpers of fears. But not a single word, sentence or question. At an age where he should be filled with endless questions, especially the all important “who are you mister?” were never asked.
Joshua let out a low growl. Speaking of questions, he had more then he had answers to and he didn’t like it one bit. Sanae was being vague and he had never expected the Angel Council to side with Sanae on the matter of letting Neku stay with him.
Neku turned his head towards the sound of a growl. His sky blue eyes held a curious look in them. Was something wrong?
Joshua, noticing Neku’s stare, let out another sigh (he seemed to be doing that a lot these days) and sat down next to Neku. “You’ll never be able to build the tower that tall Neku. You’re far too small,” he teased lightly, trying once again to bait the brat into saying something.
Neku merely stuck his tongue out but otherwise didn’t reply. Joshua frowned. Human brats were not supposed to be this silence. Joshua made a mental note to force the answer out of Sanae later. Perhaps Neku was mute, though normally Sanae would have half a mind to tell Joshua something like that.
It was far too quiet for a house with a six year old human brat in it.