Guilt and exhaustion

"Ruby?" asked a familiar voice. She opened her eyes and looked at the face of her younger sister. She straightened up and looked around.
Forest?
And then memories flooded her. Horrible, terrifying, and unsettling.
Ruby got up slowly. Again she looked around. Jade sat on a large stone with a dreamy look and looked at something in her hand.
Ruby couldn't see it, but she didn't really care.
She turned her head the other way. Amy, who had just woken her up, was already sitting on the floor again and holding her face up to the sun, which she often did.
Ruby had to smile.
She paced up and down the clearing for a while. Then she saw the elf coming from the right. She had forgotten his name again.
"Where have you been?" she asked, tired and irritable. He shrugged his shoulders. "Look at the trees." he said and walked away.
Ruby could have pulled her hair out. This guy upset her.She went to her youngest sister and calmed down on the way. "What are you looking at?" she asked kindly, her voice plaintive and worried.
"Nothing." Jade said quickly and closed her hand in a fist.
"Shall we go?" asked the elf from across the clearing.
Amy got up and Jade nodded.
"Jade?" she looked around at Ruby again. "What's his name again?" Rube asked and Jade sighed.
"Sayo." she said and ran towards the same.
They continue their we
It was boring and exhausting. Amy was exhausted anyway.
"I can not anymore." she yelped.
Ruby, who was walking in front of her, gave her an annoyed look. "Do you have to tell us that all the time. You don't talk about thoughts." she replied irritably, because it wasn't much different for her either. Jade only spoke when it was absolutely necessary and the expression on her face was somehow absent.
Only Sayo was the only one left that seemed as if he had just started off.Ruby was still puzzled by the whole thing. And slowly she thought herself stupid.
They had simply left their city where someone 'normal' could have helped them. And they just left their parents behind for that.
Their parents.
Tears welled up in her eyes. What would you have said about this strange face? When Ruby began to cry silently, she felt a hand on her shoulder.
She looked around.
Sayo was right next to her.
Even though she was crying noiselessly, he must have heard her.
She slipped off his hand and looked away.
"It'll be fine." he said in his usual way.
Ruby hung her head and Amy caught up. "What is?" she asked, sounding as tired as she had been saying all along.
"It is good." answered Ruby and wiped her face dry again.
Jade gave the two of them a listless look. Her eyes seemed milky and half closed.
Amy was worried.
Undeterred, Sayo marched ahead.Amy wasn't sad because she hadn't thought of it before. Overall, she thought very little.
"Sayo?" Jade called, her voice hoarse.
"When do we take a break?" she asked tiredly.
Sayo nodded. "Equal."
Amy frowned. "Everyone listens to them again." she moaned and Ruby nudged her lightly in the side with his elbow.
Amy snorted.
Shortly afterwards, Sayo stopped at a rock wall. "We have to go up there." he said and put his hands on the steep stone wall. "Uh ... Sayo?" Amy interrupted him and his hands slipped off the barren rock. He turned to her. His eyes seemed to boring into her soul. "You can certainly do that,
but we never get up, ”she said, suppressing the strong feeling of uneasiness.
He nodded. "Maybe, but you should never rest under a hill." he said firmly.
"Sayo. That won't work." said Jade, who had just been silent before.
Sayo looked at her too. Then he gave in.
Ruby honestly wondered why he obeyed Jade's word.Sayo continued walking along the rock face. After about an hour of walking, the cliff became just an ancestral height until it was just a shallow hill.
Amy would have protested, but she had no more air for that.
Her legs felt like lead, and with every step she took a sharp pain in her side.
When Sayo finally stopped, she let it fall on the grass, exhausted and drained.
Her eyes closed almost instantly. Ruby smiled.
Jade sat down next to her sister and leaned against her. Her half-closed eyes now closed once and for all. The breath of the two became calm and even. They slept.
Sayo watched her with his scrutiny.
2Why are you doing everything she says? "Ruby asked into the silence.
"It's the eyes ..." said sayo and his voice sounded dreamy.
"So full of sorrow and sadness." he continued. "She's not talking anymore, there is confusion in her head. She blames herself for it ..." he said, continuing to watch Ruby's little sister."You see all of that in her eyes?"
Ruby looked at him in amazement.
"The most expressive thing about a living being are the eyes. Even if people cannot see the full extent of this beauty." he just said, leaning against a rock to keep watch.
Ruby went to her sisters. Amy was curled up on the floor and Jade's head was on Amy's shoulder. They looked so peaceful.
So carefree that there was so much pain in Jade, Ruby would never have thought possible.
Then she fell asleep too.
She slept restlessly and plaintive voices called for her. Rifle her name, told her that she was doing everything wrong, scolded her for irrelevant reasons.
Bathed in sweat, she woke up from sleep.
She looked around.
Amy lay there sobbing. Tears turned the ground under her face to match.
Amy turned restlessly from side to side.
"What's happening?" asked a voice across from her.
Sayo was still awake?"Yes ... uh ... have they been like this all night?" she asked hesitantly.
The moon made Sayo's face eerie. He nodded. "Just like you."
he said, turning his head to Ruby.
His green eyes almost shone in the darkness. Then Ruby got up and walked over to make sure it was still him.
He looked so strange. As if Ruby had never seen him before. She sat down with him. She was afraid to go back to sleep.
His calm breathing, very close to her, calmed her.
Then, just before the sun rose, Jade awoke from her sleep with a cry of panic.
Ruby got to her feet and rushed over to her when she burst into tears.
Jade leaned on her sister's shoulder, trembling. A ray of sunlight fell on the ground in front of her.
He lit up Sayo's face. Jade took a deep breath and pushed Ruby away from her.
She thanked her silently.
She got up and Ruby shook Amy's shoulder lightly. Amy opened her eyes and Ruby wiped the dirt off her face.Ruby saw the awakening world blurred and wished she was dead.
What was she still living for? Why was she even here? What for? When they found the killer, what would they do?
It was pointless.
"Is not it." said Sayo's voice calmly.
"What?" Amy asked in amazement, wiping her vision clear again.
"If you don't know why, your life is meaningless. Without this knowledge, you will forever be a shadow of yourself." Sayo replied and Amy had that feeling of uneasiness again.
How could he have responded so precisely to her thoughts?
She was trembling, it was cold and warm at the same time.
Had he read her mind? How did he do that?
"Your eyes." was the answer.