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While Davey diligently collected the remnants, Mute frantically scribbled out thousands of sheets of paper as if in a trance. The musical scores, drawn in different colors, were either torn to pieces or reduced to a pile of scrap paper.
Her hands were stained with various inks from what she had done.
As if possessed, she wrote out a score and then tore it to shreds right there. “Another failure.”
Sweat poured down her face. She was clearly exhausted, but she didn’t stop.
“What nonsense,” Ares said with a snort.
“Mind your own business, and worry about yourself,” Muse shot back.
“Doing that might hit Davey even harder and crueler, you know?”
Mute stopped her work and asked irritably, “What right do you have to judge that?”
He met her gaze without backing down. “Let’s see. It’s been five to ten minutes tops, and that boy’s already suffering this much just from reading Willow’s memories. Do you think he could handle watching her vanish again right in front of him?”
“He’s the one who made that decision. Why are you taking it out on me?”
“Because I doubt it was the right choice.”
“You didn’t object at all back then! What gives you the right to say anything now?”
“I thought the same at first,” he muttered with a frown on his face. “But my mind changed when I saw him getting pushed into a corner more and more as he collected her remnants.”
He’d initially thought the collection process would provide a small measure of salvation for Davey. However, the Davey he saw was deteriorating and twisting with every remnant he collected.
That's what changed his mind.
“It’s difficult for me to say this now, but there’s a possibility this will completely...
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