Alle Kapitel von The Boy who Circled Time: Kapitel 211 – Kapitel 220

Gretel had chosen to spend her free time sequestered away at her table away from the others. continuing to work on her assignments, not unlike the manner that she had chosen to proceed during her first stint at working within her government department.She had relocated to a different table in corner far back at the end of the room, moving away from Green_One so he would no longer become so involved with her mess ups and general affairs.Her last assignment had been finished and she had turned it in satisfied with the level of detail that she had produced for it. It was all technically correct and accurate so far as what had been written on the sheet of paper that she had been given, but after staring at the thing for so long, she had begun to notice many of the errors that had caused the experiment's failings and some of the underlying incorrect assumptions that had been made about the technology that had been used in the experiment.She saw no proper reason to

The sheet in front of Gretel contained what looked to be an older model of a tracking system that sent out signals of a unique radio wave length, taking advantage of the current lack of major radio communications in this day and age, to be able to communicate with a central command and give details of location, vitals of the individual, and the general state of their health, with the actual radio device attached to a patch on the individual that injected temporary, degradeable nanobots into the blood to learn of health details and then communicating those details back to the patch to be sent off - all part of a prototype response package for an early medical drone that was meant to reach injured individuals in difficult to traverse terrain to allow the injured parties to treat themselves to an extent while larger, heavier robotics or live humans made their way to the exact location emitted by the radio patch.Gretel had picked up the sheet without particularly looking at what

Green_One knew that Gretel was suffering.He knew that she was taking actions to isolate herself in order to shield him and the rest of the group from Gryaz from the blame in case her actions were prosecuted and followed up with actual proper consequences.He knew that she was being selfless by isolating herself in case she ended up lashing out again and that she wanted to spare both him and all the others from the punishment that would inevitably come from her actions.He knew that she was doing this for what she thought was his own benefit and for the benefit for all the others in the room that had come to this place against their own will.But it still stung him.It still hurt him to think about it.It still pained him to watch her waste away alone in the corner of the room, not allowing herself any kind of rest or freetime, dark circles emerging from underneath her eyelids and slowly strengthening in colour and becoming deeper and deeper

Green_One had tried to speak to Gretel, calling out after her in the mornings, blocking off her path forwards until it was inevitable that he too had to move forwards towards the meal hall.He had even forsaken going to the library each and every break time, waving Belinda off to do as she wanted to alone in that room, free and away from him and the pressure of the external guards that his very presence would brings, making her job of trying to suss out and learn about the guards a little easier and hopefully a little more fruitful.She had enough force about her and within her personality to be able to handle things and do them right.Instead of going to read something comforting and familiar to help him relax and wind down, he had been spending his breaks trying to break Gretel out of her shell, poking and prodding at her until she gave at least some sort of indication or reaction from his actions.He had first attempted to speak to her, telling her abo

It had been a week of uneasy and tension filled work and Yuki was beginning to become slightly annoyed.She knew that she had reached a shallow stage of her life when she had thought that literally anything was better than living in Gryaz and having to deal with all the terrible, horrible people around her as all that she literally wanted to do was get paid and eat and sleep.Her grandparents had passed on and she was the sole caretaker of the shrine and the people around her behaved just as rudely and insensitively as she had predicted, not at all recognising that she, as well, was a human being with her own thoughts and feelings and calling the shrine, the preservation of the structure being the culmination of her grandparent's lives, a lame and tacky tourist trap that needed to be torn down for something more worth their while, on the day that the memorial for her grandparent's had been laid out, the dates of their deaths printed, right in front of the ignorant and

It was hard to manage to get Gretel alone, Green_One seeminly always following her around like a sad, stray animal, always vying for her attention as well, attention that she wasn't going to give him considering the state of mind that she was currently in. But it had been easy enough for Yuki to grab her by the wrist to drag her off to the computer stations, throwing Gretel down onto one of the chairs to snap her out of her stupor and to demand her focus.Slamming her hands down on both of her sides, pushing the chair as back as it would go keep Gretel from moving away and escaping, Yuki glared down at the other woman as hard as she could, ignoring Green_One's shocked and frozen body behind her as she did what was needed.Just because that man wasn't willing to be forceful to bully Gretel into doing the right thing didn't mean that she wasn't going to.Results never came out of inaction or a lack of trying.Gretel's eyes were wide, the dark b

Gretel looked up at Green_One and immediately wanted to look away again.She wanted to retreat back to her little corner where she could go back to pretending to be alone, hoping that she would be forgotten by the world around her and she would finally be free.She hated that Yuki was technically right.She hated that Yuki had been able to so thoroughly dissect her ideology and her strategy, before flipping it on its head.She hated how Yuki had so thoroughly been able to destroy the reasoning and all the shields that Gretel had managed to put up to justify what she had been doing and for obliterating whatever sentiments that Gretel was taking actions for the greater good. Breathe inone    two   three   four   fiveBreathe outone   two   thee  four   five Breathe in

Gretel kept up her grip around Green_One, continuing to stand there and hug him as he didn't respond to her, his arms still at his side as she continued to whisper apologies into his chest and hold onto him.After a while, after a period of time that felt to Gretel as if simultaneously too long and yet not quite long enough, a loose pair of arms came up to wrap around her as well.Both of them stood together, within the grey light, for a long, long time, holding each other close and nearby.When the hour was over and when all the others came, Gretel knew that she was to separate from him, walk back to the tables, pick up her pencil and then begin working once more on the time machine that was blatantly immoral to create."Thank you, thank you, thank you," Gretel whispered to Green_One."I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Gretel whispered to him."Thank you, I'm sorry, Thank you, I'm sorry," she continued on whispering to him.He had lo

The two of them had separated when the others had arrived and they were now to work on their pieces.Gretel had moved back to Green_One's table, back to where she had first sat, and the two of them continued on in a slightly awkward silence that had been present back before when they had first begun working together, back when they both had arrived here on their first day.The only real difference was that they were no longer speaking to each other, or were particularly willing to speak to each other.Gretel knew that she was being a coward by not saying anything. She knew that she could be muttering on about her own sheets that she was now working on, asking Green_One questions about his own work, something new and but still extremely maths heavy as the page was covered in equations from beginning to end, but at the same time, something inside of her hesitated.She swallowed down nothing, her throat dry and a headache on the verge of forming.Woul

Green_One had watched his siblings go through their periods of sadness, anxiety, and fear, and knew how to comfort them as they temporarily isolated themselves, as they screamed out in anger and shame, and how they had burst into tears, sobbing into his work shirts and creating stains that would barely be dry by the time he was able to finish consolling them, bringing them to school, and then making his way to work.He was far too used to consolling all the others around him, holding his mother close until the final moments where he was forced to leave the room as the doctors injected her with the necessary coktail to end her suffering, once and for all, easing his own as well to see her finally smile for the first time in months, on her deathbed, no longer pained by each breath she took and the weakness of each and every single one of her joints and muscles.Green_One had been the one to raise both of his siblings, and he had witnessed them grow from wide eyed idealis