flightworks | logica & fallenstar (kinome) 16 part two

Part two of chapter 16 is available to read here!

This chapter involves depiction of body horror and past minor character death.

Fallenstar: How come you're defeating giants, Mr Cee? Is it for fun?
Cee: Nope, it's for work.
Cee: Mr Cee was born to do it.
Fallenstar: Huh...

Fallenstar: Are giants cool? Are they strong?
Cee: Guess so.
Fallenstar: You're so cool! I wanna fight 'em too!
Fallenstar: And then I'd tame 'em! I'd make 'em my giant friends! That'd rule!
Fallenstar: Oh... but wasn't it the giants' fault that the world ended? That might make it hard to get along with 'em...
Cee: That's right. They're dangerous creatures.
Cee: They're better off dead.

Fallenstar: I see...
Fallenstar: I miss the water...
Cee: Let's go back.
Cee: It sure is hot here when the sun's out... even though it's basically cold in the nighttime.
Fallenstar: Huh? Really??
Cee: Really really.
Cee: The desert's real pretty in the nighttime.
Cee: In the moonlight, the waves of sand...
Cee: ......
Fallenstar: What's up?

Cee: Nah, I think there was a line like that in some old storybook... but I can't remember the rest.
Fallenstar: Yo! How's it going?
Logica: It's no good.
Fallenstar: Okay, I'll help!
Fallenstar: I'll catch one no matter what! Just you wait, golden fish!

Fallenstar: I can't catch it!!!!!!!
Logica: It's time to face the music. Let's just go home.
Fallenstar: Noooooooooo!!!
Fallenstar: Just a little longer!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Logica: It's almost night!
Cee: Look at the lake, you two.
Fallenstar: Huh?
Fallenstar: Ah!! It's gold!!!!

Logica: Catch it, catch it!!!
Logica: It's silver.
Fallenstar: Why?! It was gold while it was swimming, wasn't it?!
Logica: It sure was, but...

Logica: Hm?
Logica: Oh, I see! It's the sunset, Fallen!
Logica: The reflections of the sunset on the sand just make the silver scales SEEM gold.
Fallenstar: Oh, you're right.
Logica: ...... (Maybe... the reason they say golden fish appear after a heavy rain... is because the rains cause nearby rivers to overflow their banks and run into the oasis...?)

Fallenstar: So golden fish don't exist after all.
Fallenstar: Aw, man... I guess that's what we get for trusting a rumor.
Cee: That's not true at all. The real thing has to be out there somewhere.
Cee: Just look at how pretty the desert is.

Fallenstar: What do you mean?
Cee: Mr Cee remembered how that book went.
Cee: What matters is "the time you've spent".
Cee: The desert shines so bright because it's hiding the special things you've spent so long searching for.

Cee: So, Fallen, if the desert still looks beautiful to you too...
Cee: Then that fish has gotta be out there somewhere.
Logica: Let's come again sometime, Fallen! After the next heavy rains!
Fallenstar: Yeah!
Fallenstar: You're coming too, Mr Cee!
Cee: Ehhhhh...
Fallenstar: It's not like you've got anything better to do, right?

Isaac: Wow, it really exists... the underground facility where the last survivors of humanity once lived...

Isaac: Ack, my stomach's stuck!

Isaac: There's something in the drawer...
Isaac: A book?
Isaac: It seems legible. I'll have to translate it right away.

THE END

(The book Mr Cee is referencing is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.)

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