Regrets

It was a tiny wet sound, bubbling up from somewhere deep in her chest.

"Hehe... hehehe..."

Camila's fingertips froze on her shoulder.

"Chloe...?"

The laughing stopped as suddenly as it had started as Chloe's head stayed down. 

Her breath kept rattling in and out and a drop of blood fell off the tip of her nose and landed in the puddle under her chin.

Plip!

Nobody else had noticed since Ren was still talking.

"The chip..." Jin-Ah rasped from the floor. 

Her voice was shaking so hard it barely came out, but she forced it anyway, dragging her mind toward the only anchor she had left. 

"The chip you put in the life support bus... What did it do?"

Ren looked over at her with his eyebrows raised in mild patronizing amusement.