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The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 158: Nothing Food
Jasper did not know how long he had spent in that box, lying there with his knees slightly bent to fit his entire body within that space. The floor was hard and cold, and no matter how Jasper arranged his body, it remained hard and cold, the bones of his limbs jagged and unyielding and finding no comfort within the metal and grey surface beneath. What little heat was in his body was conducted away almost immediately as it was generated, never sticking around for too long and always leaving Jasper cold and alone in the pitiful state that he found himself in. Every now and again, Jasper looked up towards the ceiling and failed to find the light source that was illuminating the space that he was occupying. There was no central light source, despite the entire area being awash in a sallow and dead grey, the exact shade and tone of the light, at this point, being almost identical to the shade of the floor beneath Jasper, and seemingly being emitted from ev
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 159: The Lab
There was nothing around Jasper but grey. And there was nothing around the grey but Jasper. There was nothing around him but the four grey, pattern less walls and the grey pattern less ceiling that his head looked up at. Nothing but the grey The exact surface that had opened up to be the door would have been forgotten a long, long time ago, if Jasper wasn't sure that it was the wall behind him, a fact that he had only remembered and known because of the way that he had been thrown into the room. His limbs dragged along the floor as his those responsible for his torture had gotten bored enough of his inaction, deciding to pummel his ribs inwards one more time, snapping the joints of limbs the wrong way once more, and using this final opportunity to paint upon his skin a collage of blues, purples, browns, reds and greens that seemed to have been imprinted on the very bones of his being. He had been thrown in
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 160: Administration
Jasper had wanted pain. He had needed pain. He had deserved the pain that he had been given. He had deliberately sought it out and he had received what he had wanted. He needed to atone for what he had done. He had needed to suffer just like all those who had suffered around him and now that he was in pain, now that he was suffering, it was all wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong. His muscles ached at each twitch that his limms made, the impact of each and every metal kick to the very bones of him firmly imprinted onto the calcium surface and probably denting the very marrow within. His blood was burning, his skin wet and cold. Each and every breath that he took, deliberately forcing them to shallow and gauzy for the sake of his battered and bruised ribs, was a pained thing, his ears almost picking up on the cracking and creaking of the bones that were forced to move with each
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 161: Perspective
Inside of the office room, Lila threw herself onto the sofa in the corner and screamed into a pillow. It had been two days already. Two days of her trying and failing to draw Emmet out of the guest room and further into the rest of the building. She had been the extra cooking to make sure that he was still being fed, and was still laying out new clothes for him to wear in lieu of the ones that he had originally arrived to her in. She huffed out a sigh and lay back on the plush leather surface, deciding that watching the flickering shadows on the wall were as good as any course of action that she could possibly take at this point. The sun was setting now, falling down below the faraway line of the horizon, blinding Lila whenever her eyes strayed away from the darkness and towards the window. Wanting to know the time, she reached into her skirt pocket and fished out her phone from in between a pack of Polos and some spare loose change. She sighe
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 162: The First Day of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to meA partridge in a pear tree. Lila sat in her room, staring out of the window at the rain that poured down outside. Her hair was in a messy bun at the back of her neck, the single, frayed bobble trying its very hardest to hold up the loose structure of the hairdo that she had chosen for the two criteria of: keeps back of neck free, and completely painless. Every few minutes, she was forced to unball her fists and wipe them on the long length of her skirt, the open window in front of her doing little to alleviate and humidity and the dampness of the room - the only real benefit being the smell of grass that came into the room and acted as a repellent to keep her hayfever ridden mother and sister outside. She relished the feeling of softness underneath her as she wore her long skirt hiked up so high to the point that it barely did anything, her legs exposed to
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 163: Under the Spotlight
Emmet listened out as Lila left the floor, going downstairs to complete whatever work that she needed to do that day to support both of them, and let out a sigh in relief after counting to ten and confirming that yes, she really would be downstairs and wouldn't be returning back up, leaving him safe. He had worked out that she worked from before sunrise to after sunset, significantly longer after sunset than before sunrise, and would only come upstairs again to pick up her lunch and a snack later on, to keep her going through the day, before she would return one final time where she wouldn't leave to go back down. That schedule would persist for six days at a time, with the seventh day lasting to approximatly sunset, where Lila would return upstairs early and would sequester herself away in her room to be completely alone, not at all particularly interested in interracting with Emmet. It was easy enough to move around the floor without actually tipping her of
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 164: The Second Day of Christmas
On the Second Day of ChristmasMy True Love Sent to meTwo Turtle Dovesand a Partridge in a Pear TreeLila waited until her mother went silent, after the sun had set, to move away the makeshift barricade that she had set up to keep her bedroom door shut.Glancing at the clock that hung on her wall, Lila surmised that she would need to make supper within twenty minutes, considering her mother was a little bit incapacitated, before her father came home to see what exactly had happened while he had been away.When Lila was moving into high school and the selections were coming up, he had not been interested in attending any kind of open evening events, leaving her alone to submit her own options after hearing what other people at her primary school had said about where would be best to go, easily deciding to go for the top high school in the area and then moving down the list of Ofsted rankings.
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 165: The First Therapy
Emmet had quickly found that, in the absence of a zimmerframe or some kind of real or proper physiotherapy equipment, he would have to make do with the window sill and the walls of the bedroom, that he had been willingly confining himself in, to do as best as he could to try and build up some of the strength that he had before he had sustained all his injuries and then handcuffed into lying down. It had belatedly occurred to him that at some point, the catheter inside him had been removed, allowing him to move around once more freely, but that he had no memory of the event, whether it be for his own good or not. No matter what, it was still suspect, and it would simply be absolutely terrible if Lila was the one to do it so, having no idea how catheters were inserted and removed from the human body, not that he particularly wanted to know anyway. The fact that Lila knew details about something so private him felt like an insult, a condescention, and an imbalan
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The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 370: EXTRA GRETEL
Yolanda seemed to understand that she needed to back off and stop teasing Gretel, when the other woman's eyes suddenly misted over, and it was if she was no longer a part of this world.She kept the bubbling annoyance within her away from her face, putting on instead a mask of concern as she reached out and poked Gretel's arms, trying to maybe prod her out of her stupor and bring her back from the recesses of her mind.Yolanda had never actually seen somebody collapse inwards to a catatonic state over her own actions.It was interesting to see it all happen and fold out in front of her.She poked Gretel again, touching her in the face lightly to see if that would possibly work to pull the other woman out of her mind and back into the world where she was needed proper.It wouldn't reflect well on her if Gretel didn't wake up within the hour.It didn't feel as
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 369: Thanatos
When she awoke, she was sat ready to eat and was dressed just like her mother, in a pastel blouse and a lungi down to the floor.Lila looked down at herself and jumped when she heard rattling, noticing the ten, or so, bangles on each arm and the lines of mehndi that ran down all the way to the hems of her sleeves, resting halfway between her shoulders and elbows. A pin held her blouse shut at the top and a quick once over of her hair, with one of her hands, revealed that it had been styled in a simple bun and adorned with flowers.“This is weirdly romantic,” Lila commented, staring at the lit candles nestled in the variously sized candelabrums set around the circular room.There was no door, but a giant window which led to a balcony outside. There was no ceiling but the walls reaching upwards, all the way up, until they formed a dome in the same shade of dull brown that coated the floor and the giant, round table in the centre.The only dishes
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“So, is she finally asleep?” Emmet asked the boy stood behind the counter. He was exceedingly slim for someone surrounded by sugar all day and Emmet could make out the outlines of his spindly elbows through his shirt. His face held a no nonsense, blunt, and almost bored expression. “Yeah, she is. She’s been knocked out on the sofa since I sent her back there,” Kai answered the long haired man in front of him, his hair pulled back by a ribbon matching his eyes before being pulled over his shoulder once more. He looked vain. “Oh good. Don’t tell her that I was involved,” the man asked, putting both his palms up to face Kai. “I’m telling her that you’re a fucking weirdo for that,” was the scowled answer. “No. Seriously, don’t tell her. She doesn’t like me and I don’t like her. She’s known my partner for longer that I’ve known him. She doesn’t trust me with him. Why’re you making that face?” Emmet tried to justify himself before giving up
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“Are you sure that you’re getting enough sleep?” Kai asked Lila, watching her sway on her feet and clutching the front counter.“Yes,” she gasped, dropping her head into her hands, elbows on the table.“Go and lie down on the sofa. Go to sleep for a bit. I’ll wake you up when I have to leave for college,” Kai instructed her, tapping her on the shoulders and shepherding her towards the office.“… fine,” she conceded, letting Kai move her along towards the back.“You know that this just proves my point,” Kai pointed out, pushing her through the boundary of the door and closing it behind her.“Fine,” she whispered back to him, talking into the silence of the office.She let herself fall over the sofa, draping her upper body over the arm rest and letting her head be cushioned by the pillows. Shuffling a bit over to put her body entirely on the sofa, Lila f
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 366: Punching Bag
“One! Two! Three! Four! Five!Now again!One! Two! Three! Four! Five!Now keep on going!”Lila landed each punch, timing her breaths to the count as she moved her fists, dodging underneath the swing that came towards her head, before blocking the second hit that came to her and moving along with the force of the fist that hit her arm.The swinging punching bag forced distance between Lila and Tweedle Dum, and she stepped back to where she was stood before, within the path of the moving bad, to put more distance between him and her.“One! Two! Three! Four! Five!One! Two! Three! Four! Five!”Lila punched the bag once more, landing all of her hits.“Okay, time for a break,” Tweedle Dum announced, grabbing the punching bag and pulling it back to him as Lila moved away from the centre of the room, sitting down on one of the rickety plastic chairs at the side of the room.She took of
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 365: Much Older Nephew
“Bitch! Why’d you run off and abandon me like that!?” Lila shouted from behind the counter when Kai finally walked back into the store.She was waving her hands about and wore an apron covered in flour as the single customer in the store, an old man precariously balancing on his cane, slept whilst leaning on the radiator.“I thought that you wanted some bonding time with your family so I left you to do that it private!” Kai answered her, tiptoeing past their unconscious patron, in a combination of whispering and shouting.“They’re hardly my family and you left us in the middle of a public café!” Lila cried, not modulating her voice at all.In the background, the old man began to snore.“But you still talk to them a lot like you do to me, so I let you, and besides, I got about fifty more pages of Good Omens done in Waterstones,” Kai appealed, finally at the counter and opening up the
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Gretel and Silver had their fun as he continued to teach her how the interface worked and how he had managed to figure out that the system was an older model from the lack of integration between the screen and the touch pad, and explaining how easily it would potentially be to do so once the technology, as displayed in this device, had been demonstrated and established to work in a functional product."We were working on something like this as well, back in the workshops back home for the company that I was in the research and development department for. We were trying to get our motion sensors to be as small as possible for more commercial and personal use of technology that we could sell to the public and those who couldn't afford the contact computers.We had no idea on how their tech worked, because of trade and company secrets and all, but we managed to piece together a few things by looking at the patents and when we bought a few and m
The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 363: Alcohol and Sleep
“Alright, the shop’s free. Why are you actually here?” Lila questioned, crossing her arms and staring down at the tablecloth of Jasper and Emmet’s table.“I’ve got lesson now. I’ll be back in a few hours,” the teenage boy behind Lila announced, picking up a bag that had been hidden behind the counter the entire time and rushing outside.Lila continued to stand there, waiting for a reply.Jasper couldn’t help but notice that she wasn’t meeting either his or Emmet’s eyes.“Are you planning to leave us?” he asked her back.Lila’s fingers dug into the creases of her shirt,” I’m going to be leaving for a trip soon, and I’ll be back as soon as I can. Kai’ll be running the shop and will be looking after things, broadly. He lives here now and I scheduled my leave for when his school term ends so he can take care of things.”“On thi
