Tides: Years of Dawn

Crewe woke up at Gao Wen's house, he heard rustling voices.But he was too tired to open his eyes, and could only listen drowsily to what the people around him were saying.

Hua De's voice came first, and he asked the doctor about Crewe's condition. He said that if it was too serious, he would send Crewe to the general hospital under the sea to have a look.

But the doctor said it didn't matter, there would be no danger to his life, but whether the tentacles bitten off by Leviathan could grow back, probably took a lot of work.

After a while came Gao Wen's voice. He was explaining Crewe's mistake to someone. He said that Crewe and Andre had a very good relationship, so it's normal to think about it for a while.He definitely didn't mean to sabotage the sacrifice, he was always obedient, and he never did bad things on purpose.

After a long time, Saru's voice came.

Saru kept apologizing and blaming Crewe, and once again advised Gawain - abandon him, he is really not suitable to be Gawain's assistant.

Elena was also on the side, she said yes, yes, that's it, Crewe has been in trouble since he was a child, embarrassing the octopus family is still a trivial matter, but they really don't want Crewe to continue embarrassing the sea monster family.

Crewe didn't open his eyes from the beginning to the end, letting the voice rage in his ears.

I don't know how long it took, but the surroundings became quiet again.He didn't know whether he was asleep or awake, and lay down in a daze for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the edge of the curtain was illuminated by light.It is daytime now, but the doors and windows are tightly closed.It seemed to be still raining outside the house, and bursts of thunder came in through the windows.

Leviathan is definitely not satisfied with this sacrifice, so it is unknown whether it will be exposed to the sun for a month or it will rain for a month.

Gawain fell asleep on a bench next to him, with a blanket covering him.

Crewe tried to move, but the tentacles accidentally touched the bedside table.With a start, Gao Wen immediately turned his head from the bench, got up and walked towards him.

After confirming that Crewe had really woken up, he checked Crewe's body temperature and began to ask him questions.Ask him how he feels, where he still hurts, if he has the strength to eat something, and if he wants a drink of water.

After talking about the question, he began to ask him again and again, saying that he should stay at his house for the next few days. It is not suitable for Crewe to move now. The wound has finally been bandaged, and it will be difficult to tear it apart.

At the same time, I didn't forget to add that although they didn't have the panacea from the octopus family, he could ask the turtle family for help. He had already invited two doctors from the submarine general hospital to come up, and they would give Crewe the best help possible.

It could be seen that Gawain was not at ease about handing Crewe back to the Octopus family, and he began to distrust Saru, and it was the same for Elena.

To Crewe's surprise, Gawain didn't blame him, and didn't say a word about his sabotage of the memorial service.

Of course, it is also possible that it was mentioned, but Crewe couldn't really hear it.His tinnitus was still severe, and the scene in front of him was also blurred by the light coming in from the curtains, with a little halo shining, which seemed extremely unreal.

Gawain kept talking, but Crewe didn't want to respond, nor did he want to see Gawain.Now he doesn't want to see anyone, he just wants to be alone.

So he turned around and pulled the quilt up.

It hurts where he snapped off the tentacle, and there's a strange sense of emptiness.He didn't know how to recover afterwards, or if he could never recover, but now his heart was heavy and he couldn't think of anything.

The scene of Andre being bitten continued to appear in front of his eyes, and the bright red blood spurted out, like popping a balloon filled with red paint.

Andre's eyes are also deeply imprinted in Crewe's mind, as long as he closes his eyes, he feels that Andre is looking at him.

He is very uncomfortable.

But what surprised him even more was that he couldn't cry at all now.The eye sockets are dry and a little sore.He should have said a few words of sorry, but his throat hurt like a fishbone, and it was even difficult to breathe.

Gao Wen said a few more words, seeing that Crewe didn't respond to him, he also sighed slightly, and tucked the quilt up for him.

Gawain was also confused, which Saru probably didn't expect - Gawain complained very much to Crewe at first, blaming him for ruining his first trial, and the more he helped, the more trouble he caused.

But now Gao Wen felt very guilty—maybe it was because of his estrangement these days that Crewe projected all his dependence on Andre, so that Andre's sacrifice completely defeated Crewe, Also let him interfere with the ceremony desperately.

Gawain should be the one to protect Crewe, no matter in his capacity as his future spouse or as a brother who is a few years older than him.But Gao Wen didn't do it, he let Crewe face everything he was afraid of in Haicheng School alone.

Gawain couldn't feel the turbulent, suffocating helplessness, all he could see was Crue's hysterical desire to protect his only friend.The consequence of such persistence and paranoia was that Crewe fell down. He broke off two tentacles and lay half dead in front of him.

And he was not even willing to accept Gao Wen's closeness.

Gawain sat beside him for a long time, but Crewe didn't turn around or speak.Gawain thought he was asleep, until he was about to stand up and leave, when one of Crewe's tentacles stretched out from the quilt moved again.

Gawain's heart throbbed for a moment, and he walked over to hold Crewe's tentacles.

Crewe's tentacles were limp, and they twitched gently in his palm, and then continued to sag when they found that they couldn't go away.

Gao Wen really wanted to hug this little guy from behind, but he held back and didn't move.

The two stalemate for a while, Gawain put his other hand on Crewe's pillow and asked, "Are you angry with me?"

But Crewe still didn't say anything, he just shook his head silently.This kind of action has consumed most of his energy, and even if Gao Wen wants to get more responses, now is not the most appropriate time.

After Gao Wen stuffed the tentacles back into the quilt, he walked out the door helplessly.I happened to see the servants chasing the stumbling Lemarlock towards him.

Seeing Gawain, Lemarlock spat at him, made a face, passed him, and ran into the room.

Gawain stopped the servant and signaled to let Lemarlock go in by himself.

Lemarlock staggered to the edge of the bed, looked up at the high bunk, jumped a few times, and climbed up by the edge of the quilt.

He crawled up to Crewe, pushed Crewe, rolled over him, and was face to face with Crewe.

Crewe opened his eyes to find Lemarlock staring at him too.

Lemarlock has grown rapidly after becoming a human, and now he can transform into human legs, but his tail is still swaying behind him, sweeping to the wall, and slapping on the quilt.

"What... what's the matter with you?" Lemarlock touched Crewe's face with his webbed hands.

He didn't know what happened to Crewe, only that Crewe was injured.All he could see were adults coming and going, so he knew Crewe was badly hurt.

Crewe didn't speak, he wanted to cry when he saw Lemarlock's appearance.But he held back, pursed his mouth, and shook his head.

"It hurts, does it hurt..." Lemarlock patted the place covered by the quilt again. He didn't know where he was injured, but it would probably hurt if he was injured.He still can't speak very smoothly, but he is still trying to speak.

Crewe shook his head again, and quickly wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.

When Lemarlock saw Crewe's movements, he suddenly became anxious. He pouted his mouth in displeasure, and wiped the corners of Crewe's eyes with his fingers, "Don't cry... If you cry, I will, so I……"

Perhaps Lemarlock didn't know what he could do either, so he paused.

He still couldn't deal with so many things in his little mind, so after thinking for a long time before he could figure it out, he changed the direction of the question directly, and said with righteous indignation—"My brother must have bullied you!"

Having said that, Crewe couldn't help laughing.Crewe's smile made Lemarlock believe that his judgment was correct, and he suddenly realized, "I knew, I knew it was him!... He always bullies you, I want, I want to find him..."

"It's not him, you blamed Gao Wen by mistake."

Crewe held Lemarlock's head and pulled him over to his chest. He couldn't let Lemarlock see him cry, but at the moment he was too weak to even control his feelings.

Lemarlock stayed in Crewe's arms blankly, and after a while stroked Crewe's back with his webbed to comfort him.

Crewe quickly closed his eyes and rubbed Lemarlock's head harder.Then he quickly continued to wipe away the tears with the back of his hand, but the tears were disobedient, and the more he wiped, the more tears he wiped.

"It's not that he bullied me, it's that I bullied him." Crewe quickly finished the clarification, he was afraid that if he slowed down, the words would not be able to come out completely.

Lemarlock was quiet for a moment when he heard Crewe's explanation.He seemed to be thinking desperately about something, using his little brain that hadn't been tortured by the world of adults.

A few seconds later, he raised his head again, and said seriously to Crewe—"Oh, then it's fine, it's fine...he has thick skin, it doesn't matter if he bullies him..."

Crewe laughed a second time, but he cried again.

He cried because he thought the world was cruel, but he laughed because there was a little bit of beauty in this cruelty.

Lemallock was really lucky to be born into a family that didn't need to sacrifice males.But the people other than him, Andre who had been swallowed by Leviathan, Geraint who no longer knew where he was wandering, and himself who had to guard against his brother's harm from time to time—how unfortunate were they.

This world is really unfair. Some people are born with a good living environment and a flat and broad future.But some people have experienced ups and downs since childhood, and have to survive in the cracks every day.

But the world is so fair, because even though Crewe believed that there was no beauty in the world to linger at one second, he was holding Lemarlock in his arms the next second.

The little sea monster is so warm, he is an extremely lively life.And the temperature brought by this kind of life, even if it is only a little bit, seems to be able to ignite a little bit of hope for people to continue living.

TBC