[PRIVATE: DGFone & Thewhistlerify]

[DGFone]

Delano leaned on Muroki, trying to fight back against his blind panic. "I... I can't!" he gasped out, "it's hard... breath.." He continued to gasp, trying to regain control of himself. He felt Muroki grab onto him, but other than that, there was nothing Muroki was able to do. Delano lay on the ground, with Muroki next to him, as he desperately tried to calm down.

Eventually, after what felt like an eternity, Delano found it easier to breath. His gasps faded until he was left panting quietly on the ground, shaking but alive. "Muroki, what was that?" he asked quietly, "I... I didn't know what to do..." He placed his head on the ground, feeling exhausted. "I felt like... I was dying." he said.

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki, despite the fact that they were surrounded by absolute darkness, closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down. He let out a huge sigh of relief as Delano's breathing turned somewhat more normal. What had just happened was very scary, and Muroki hoped such a thing would never happened again. "I don't know Delano..." he said, feeling as clueless as his brother was. "And I don't want to see it again in order to find out..."

[DGFone]

Delano heard Muroki, who also sounded afraid. He positioned himself back next to his brother, also breathing out a sigh of relief now that whatever it was that he had just experienced was over. "I'm gonna leave tomorrow, right?" he asked, "because that's what you kept saying... that I can leave tomorrow..."

As much as he was relieved that he was feeling better now, he was still very afraid that he might choke again at any time, and especially that he won't get better the next time it would happen.

[TheWhistlerify]

When Delano lay down next to him, Muroki went ahead and again held his brother close, letting out a sigh. "Yes Delano, tomorrow the trial and we'll all be there to defend you in it." he paused for a moment as he wondered what's going to happen during the trial itself. "Lina will also be there." he doubted that Delano and Lina will be able to be 'properly reunited', but at least Delano would finally realize that she and the others were okay and not dead like in Delano's nightmares.

[DGFone]

Delano froze when Muroki told him about tomorrow. "Trial? You- you never said anything about a trial!" he blurted out, "against them? They're never going to let me out!.. They... they are the ones who got me in here in the first place..." He pressed himself against Muroki, trying to hide from the rest of the world. "I'm not going to get out..." he whimpered, "but you said that I would... why did you lie to me?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki said nothing for a few moments, realizing that he really hadn't mentioned the trial to Delano until now. "Look, you are innocent, and we can prove it to them and to anyone else to whom we might need to prove your innocence." perhaps letting Delano know about the trial sooner would have been a better idea, but Muroki never thought it was necessary. "I did not lie to you Delano, tomorrow you'll leave this place and never come back."

[DGFone]

"I want to believe you," Delano whispered, "but after everything that has happened now... I just can't," he covered his head under his paws, groaning slightly. "It's just that... how can you be so certain? You can just come and go as you wish... and then you come and tell me that I will be able to leave tomorrow... after a trial of all things! If they would let me go, they would have done so already..." He motioned around the cave, a futile effort because Muroki couldn't see him anyways. "Why would they hold me up in here just to let me go?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki at first was silent. When thinking about it in Delano's perspective, it really did look as if there was barely a chance to ever set him free. However Muroki remembered what Moto had told him until now, so he wasn't as nervous as his brother was. "Look, Delano, Moto's been here also trying to find out as much information as he could regarding you, and he told me that they don't really have any proof against you." also, the three days in which they kept him here were only part of a police protocol.

[DGFone]

Delano shook his head. He was certain that the only reason why he was in here for this long was because they were planning to kill him in the end. "It doesn't matter," he replied, "don't you already know how they work? they don't care!" He sighed, feeling fear rise up again. "They... they keep me in here until... I don't know what, and then they kill me." He grabbed onto Muroki's shoulders tightly. "Tell me that's not the case. Tell me!"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki became somewhat nervous when Delano suddenly grabbed his shoulders. Now that he was thinking about it, everything he had told his brother until now might prove to be false tomorrow. Sure, the chances of that were slim according that what Moto said, but Muroki couldn't know for sure. "I think," he said, after a short silence, "that if they had enough information against you they would have killed you already. Putting you here buys them time, but they can't hold you here forever." he should have thought about it in that perspective a long time ago.