โ The 'Queen' of Spades โ
Fiore suppressed a blush himself. Saying something like that was totally out of character for him. How long had it been since he had actually teased someone?
How long has it been since I have actuallytalked to someone out of my own volition without any ulterior purpose?
Wonderland sure had warped them all....
He heard Aria ask if he had always been alone and stiffened a little, almost imperceptibly.
Had he always been alone?
Technically, he had always been alone ever since he came to Wonderland, but before that... he had had a family. However, his past life - the one he used to lead outside Wonderland, in the 'real' world, so to say - was a subject he took great pains to avoid approaching. Not because of some hidden pain, like his own sister's or some of the Chains', but because he had chosen to come here and become a part of Wonderland.
Unlike the others.
He stole a quick glance towards the girl walking beside him, and felt a twinge of guilt.
Unlike her.
"As far as I can remember, I have always been alone ever since I found myself here." he settled for a cross between outright lying and telling her the truth. For some reason, he had a niggling suspicion that she would have known anyway if he had tried to lie, but that had less to do with the reason behind his half truth than the fact he simply didn't want to lie to her. It had been ages since he got a proper ..... companion - he had idly considered the word 'friend' and immediately scratched it out mentally once he realised what he was doing - with whom he could just be himself. Not the Queen of Spades, Ruler of Chess Board, one of the most powerful Chains to ever exist, but simply himself.
OOC: The tag option is glitching for me. So no tags for this post. I'll go back and edit it later on?^^;;