But even though she spoke, Zyren didn't move and continued to lie in the same exact spot he had first laid in.
He didn't even turn his gaze to the side to look at her. Aira, on the other hand, slowly grew incensed at not being able to get a reaction from him.
"First you lock me here with you and now you won't even speak?" she snapped at him, only to be more stunned by the response she got when he instantly answered this time around.
"…Why should I talk to someone that doesn't want to be alive? I figured you might want to get used to the silence, seeing as that's what you prefer!"
His words made Aira's mouth fall open in shock as she scrambled off the floor and moved toward the bed where he lay.
She was stunned by how much he had said—so much so that she couldn't help but wonder if the silence also got to him and he was simply better at hiding it.
She stared at the blank look on his face as he continued to gaze up at the ceiling of the cell instead of looking at her.
