Thump.
Pause.
Thump-thump.
Like knocking on the marble tiles.
Sarah looked around, visibly disturbed by this incoming sound amidst the terrifying gunfire and ground tremors. That was when she noticed something.
She leaned a little closer to Ciel, lowered her voice, and whispered, "Hey. Hey. Where did Bryan go?"
Ciel didn't answer right away. He was watching Julius take out the weapons without helping.
"Hm?" Ciel snapped out of his blank stare and realized she was asking something.
He blinked a couple of times and also looked around to check. "Bryan?"
"Yeah, Bryan." Sarah jutted her chin toward the empty space where Bryan had been in his own sweet world with Iris. "I thought he was with Iris this whole time. Plastered to her side like a barnacle. When did he—"
"Slipped out maybe to get some more drinks," Ciel said, his hand had drifted down the side of the cushion with a bored expression. "Or maybe he just went into the bathroom. I wasn't really paying attention."
