Day 1 - lần đầu
Thiết lập: CG là vật thí nghiệm, được nuôi dưỡng ở một trại thí nghiệm. Green sở hữu thính giác siêu nhạy và TSC có thể liên kết với giác quan của người khác.

Quá khứ của AU Mafia của mình. Viết bằng TA, chưa kiểm tra chính tả, ngữ pháp.

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[I want to see the world.]

You heard yourself saying it out loud. Not quite so loud by human standards, but the words were out of your mouth anyways, and everything was loud to your new companion, so it counted. He whipped his head back to look at you, eyes wide before he bursted into pure laughters.

"World, yeah, the world." The boy nodded to himself. "I haven't quite thought about it, I wonder how I had never thought about it before until you say it to my face."

He brushed his bangs back, as he tilted his head, smiling. "Well I can't show you the world right now, but do you wanna try feeling a fragment of it? You have linked senses right?"

The boy extended a hand. You know he was talking about his extraordinary hearing. But without a thought, you grabbed it. What was it in you that compelled you to do this? You honestly don't know. Maybe it was the way his eyes twinkled in wonder, dull green lighting up. Or something on the back of your mind urging you to do this. It was gonna be worth it. He was gonna be worth it. The green boy ran his other hand through your hair, pressing both of your foreheads together.

"Close your eyes."
You closed your eyes. You were doing it again. You were doing something you hated the most. But it didn't feel as uncomfortable, this time, for some reason. You hated sense linking, but you felt like it'd be fine if it was the boy in front of you.

"Breathe."
You took a deep breath in, in time with the other boy. You feel both of your breathing was slightly out of sync, but both of you were breathing at the same frequency in no time. You felt weirdly calm, and not... so overwhelmed, like every time you had done this. You liked this. You didn't think you could connect this way.

"Relax, OK?" You heard the boy saying, and you instinctively nodded. "When you are ready, do whatever you need with you."

You took a particularly deep breath. You think, [I think,] you're ready. [I'm ready.]

"Listen."
[Listen.]

For the first few seconds, there was nothing, then you heard it approaching. Something messy and chaotic, and you instinctively immediately wanted to snap out of it. The other boy held you back, hand scratching the back of your head gently, the other hand squeezing your hand tightly. He shushed, just loud enough so you didn't startle.

"I'm here. Can you repeat that after me?"

[...you- you're here.]

"Focus on me. My presence. Here. With you."

[You're here, with me.]

"Good. Now, I will guide you through this, OK?" The boy softly caressed your hand. You nodded again.

"First, do you hear a lot of talking?"

You wanted to say, well fucking a lot. But you felt like you didn't want to talk to your new companion with the same tone that you use for the scientists in charge of you, so you just nodded again.

"Good, ignore that."

[WHAT--?!]

"Now, now, focus on my voice. Drown out everything." The boy whispered. "Can you hear me?"

You breathed out. [Yes, barely.]

He had the audacity to laugh! "Yes, it's gonna be very overwhelming. But you have me. Always find me when you're overwhelmed."

[How the hell?]

"Just, I don't know, zone out?" The boy chuckled softly, as his hand soothed your back. "Just trust me, find that one frequency that's not human voices. I am going with you. I am hearing what you're hearing."

[...OK.]

You exhaled heavily. There was just too much, too disordered, too messy. Various moving voices, jumbled together into a disgusting mash. Amongst the overpowering voices, you felt your voice working up, a little breathless.

[You deal with this everyday? I'm seriously sorry for yelling at you before.]

"Thanks for the acknowledgement, but focus." The boy lightly flicked you. You just made a sort of scoffing noise before focusing on the task at hand.

It took a few more excruciating minutes before you finally caught a sound. A sound unlike humans, unlike machines. You immediately lashed onto it. You tried to zone out, drown out all other noises, giving way for it to arise. You focused on it, intensely. A soft, high-pitched sound. Not human. Not anything you had known before. You snapped open your eyes in wonder.

"A bird!" The boy gasped. "You caught a bird chirping!"

Bird...

So that's what they sounded like. The boy in front of you smiled brightly, happiness radiated from him, and you felt a little delighted too. So this was a bird sound. The little creature you had always seen in the same old picture books you read over and over again for over a hundred times. It... sounded so sweet. You loved it. You wanted to hear it again.

The boy in front of you smiled, his eyes twinkled.

"See, I told you! I can show you a fragment of the world!"

You blinked, you felt yourself smiling too. Yes, he showed you the world. This might be the first time... you had felt that this world might be worth it.