She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

236 Eminem’s Song

comforting.

Not that Scar wants to admit it, but this jerk has a really nice voice. Instead of the cleanness Alice's cute clear child's voice brings the lullaby, his hoarse voice gives it a more secure feeling. Magically, the manly power embedded in such a soft song somehow makes it more Maybe that's what the power a lullaby should have - the safety provided by parents.

"Hey, how are you feeling, little one?" Damian taps Scar's chin with a hooked finger ever so gently, and his voice echoes with something deeply hidden in Scar's memory, as if there was once a little boy whose voice shares only the tiniest bit feature of Damian's voice but the exact same tone when he looked down on her just like this and called her "little one".

The episode is over, but Scar's eyes remain wide open like a scared animal as too many memories and questions squeeze into her head trying to escape. The first one successfully barging out is-

"Who told you to use this song on me!"

Alice? Lilith? They both know about this, but at the same time, Scar doubts that any one of them would have had the chance to mention this to Damian when he is the last man on earth that Lilith would talk to. The last time Scar knew, Damian only tried to talk to Alice, and that was through hardship risking being arrested for kidnapping in a public park.

Who else knows? Silco.

told Damian? No. Silco knew Damian only as a famous face on the news. Besides, they didn't exactly

pulled together for Scar, but they

her?! To take the right method without even a

all sorts of dark thoughts pass through her mind. Has he gotten

his hands, explaining with a scared look at Scar's sudden change of tone, "When I saw you on the ground, I just assumed it was because it was exactly how my friend's episodes looked!" "Yeah, sure, it's a panic attack,

because, I

aid for a panic attack, Damian blinks with confusion, "your breath was pausing so

as Damian's answer

answer me the real question: how did you know

Mom loved it." Scar blinks as his answer crushes her anger into pieces. She wasn't expecting such an oddly normal answer. But at the same time, it makes perfect sense. Emma used to sing it. Of course

it because Lilith

song is a lot alike Eminem's Mockingbird, but Scar

that song.

them into this version. She thought it was just a better version,