Young Machi

Judas

Nora stares blankly at the image of her with her parents as memories spent in their embrace and running through the house in the past years float through her mind. Closing the heart-shaped locket she looks up at the scene before her, her large, childish eyes blank to the commotion. Her parents scream out for help, begging to be released. Though Nora can no longer hear them, she can read their lips. "Why? How could you do this to us?" Nora looks up to her right where the commander watches the scene, his face stoic and unmoving while his hand rests on her opposite shoulder, almost in a caring, fatherly way.