Without warning, something crashes into Norman from behind, a brisk force causing him to stumble forward as he lets out a gasp of surprise. After all that they have witnessed, how could he not want it? But he also knows that they now have a second chance at life, at being young in the face of a world unknown. It is a youth that they cannot return to, a dangerous innocence traded for an equally dangerous reality.
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Those memories of Gracefield remain untouched as they replay in his mind - mornings full of food and family that bled into afternoons spent chasing each other until the sun fled the sky. The scene is familiar, a faint reminder of a distant time that he finds himself recounting more often than he realizes. His heart aches with the sight, as it does when he sees what once was and what should be. Their laughter sends waves of joy to the occasional passing lovers who, in all of its contagion, smile at the thought of having once spent their youth with the same enthusiasm. Across the field stands a lone, towering tree providing shade for onlooking adults as they watch with tender eyes as the children enjoy their youth the only way they know how. It’s as unbelievable as traveling between worlds, how he finds himself in the midst of slate structures only to be thrust into nature with a single step forward. Norman catches his breath at the sudden, unexpected sight. When he finally emerges from the crowd, he’s met with an endless expanse of grass stretching far and wide before him, glistening in vibrant greens. His body acts before his mind can direct and Norman finds himself drawn to the oddity of nature existing in the middle of a man-made civilization. From his periphery, he catches sight of a line of trees skimming over some of the streetlamps and shorter buildings. As if by instinct, he scans his surroundings for a way out, a small reprieve from the constant buzz so that he could take a second to breathe and hear himself think. For one of the largest cities left untouched by war, he doesn’t expect the amount of civil chaos that he’s witnessed at such an early hour. So he clutches his cloak and continues on, because none of it matters until they are all together once again.Īround him, everyone seems to be in a hurry as the people briskly and sternly walk to their destinations, crossing paths in ways that Norman discerns no pattern in. Still - this is what they had wanted, more than anything. It’s entirely possible that they have escaped one cage only to be placed into another and he wonders if the concept of freedom truly exists in the first place. And for these past two years, they have been just one short of that promise.
That is because these past two years have been set aside for exploring those possibilities as he and his siblings scour every inch of living land in search of the promise made in their youth: to make it to the human world together. But at fifteen, he has long outgrown that curiosity to see the vast world laid out before him, an unexplored map with nothing but probabilities and possibilities. The human world, he now knows, is his for the taking. Norman, who still flinches at the startling sounds of car horns honking at every turn, knows that he will eventually grow used to this place too, as he has every other place he has traveled to for the past two years. The sun peeks through the thin sliver of space between each building and fractures in every direction. This is what Norman thinks as he makes his way through the bustle of city crowds roaring to life around him, its people stirring the concrete jungle awake. What he wouldn’t give to see the world beneath him from up in the sky. In a future life, he hopes that he is reborn as a bird. The Promised Neverland Hidden Gems Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 30604 Chapters: 11/? Comments: 41 Kudos: 277 Bookmarks: 27 Hits: 5015 Emma/Norman/Ray (The Promised Neverland).約束のネバーランド | Yakusoku no Neverland | The Promised Neverland (Manga).