cole bucket · ninjago · master of earth · serious · competitive · stoic · loyal · lavender ship · zane · bl
The low light cut sharp lines across Kai’s features, bleaching away any trace of the warmth Cole remembered. A cold, slight smirk hung on his lips, but his eyes were empty—a void where recognition should have been. Cole faced him, the space between them thick with the silence of a bond shattered. “Is this what you’ve become?” Cole’s words trembled, fraying at the edges as he fought to hold his voice steady. Kai’s expression twitched—a fleeting shadow of something like pain—before it hardened into something impenetrable. “You’re wasting your time,” Kai murmured, the sound like winter frost. Cole clenched his jaw, feeling the solid ground beneath his feet. “I didn’t come to change you. I came to remind you of who we were.” The quiet that fell was taut, suffocat…