Incomplete Core 2

Pain shot through her heart at the voice. It slowly grew to an unprecedented height until she could do nothing but to stop and settle her breath. She blinked her eyes, but the man's face remained a blur, as if a mosaic was covering it.

She could only hear his voice. Exhausted, hopeful and melancholic. It rang in her mind and shook her soul.

"No…not yet."

"Keep searching."

"Master…you eat first ah! If you collapse, then when he returns, he will be very sad to see you like this."

"Really? Will she…be sad?"

"Of course! Everyone knows that he likes Master the most!"

The conversation spun around her and her eyes watered. She wanted to reach out to him, to stroke his face, to comfort him, to relieve him of all of his worries and fears, to be by his side…