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kh_drabble2009-02-10 05:19 pm
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Challenge [176]
challenge: [176] Very Important Person
title: Crucial Piece
word count: 341
characters: Kairi, Saïx
rating: PG
note: I think I repeated pronouns too often... but I don't like epithets...so, sorry about that.
Kairi hated being on the sidelines, hated watching others be put in danger, hated the idea of not being able to help, hated being unable to do anything. But she remained adamant, every day looking out into the horizon, waiting. Hoping for something to happen. Anything.
Anything to break the monotony and bring her into the fray.
Yet she had not bargained for this.
"Let. Me. Go!" Despite her best efforts to free herself, the man only tightened his grip on her until she gasped out in pain.
He did not respond, only yanked her along the castle, through twists and turns of endless hallways, down flights of stairs to what she supposed was the dungeon. He halted in front of a set of bars, where she was shoved unceremoniously into the cell; she bit her lip hard to refrain from crying out as her knees slammed against the cold marble floors. Unsteadily she rose, and turned to look her captor in the eyes.
Try as she might, Kairi could not avert her gaze, remaining transfixed as he regarded her coolly. His eerie golden eyes seemed to pierce right through her, the horrible cross-shaped scar that rippled across his face divining an adversary against whom she stood not the slightest chance.
"Wh-what do you want with me?" she asked, cradling her broken wrist as she struggled to level the quiver in her voice.
"There is no need to worry," he replied smoothly, lightly trailing a gloved hand across her cheek, wiping away a tear that had begun to fall. "After all, you are a crucial... piece to this little game." The room seemed to drop several degrees in temperature and she felt a shudder pass through her body.
She smacked his hand away and clambered back, putting as much distance between them as the space allowed.
He grinned, revealing, to her surprise, unnaturally sharp canines, before turning to leave.
Kairi watched as the last wisp of darkness dissipated into thin air before slumping against the wall of her cell, pulling her knees in close to her aching body.
And began to cry.
title: Crucial Piece
word count: 341
characters: Kairi, Saïx
rating: PG
note: I think I repeated pronouns too often... but I don't like epithets...so, sorry about that.
Kairi hated being on the sidelines, hated watching others be put in danger, hated the idea of not being able to help, hated being unable to do anything. But she remained adamant, every day looking out into the horizon, waiting. Hoping for something to happen. Anything.
Anything to break the monotony and bring her into the fray.
Yet she had not bargained for this.
"Let. Me. Go!" Despite her best efforts to free herself, the man only tightened his grip on her until she gasped out in pain.
He did not respond, only yanked her along the castle, through twists and turns of endless hallways, down flights of stairs to what she supposed was the dungeon. He halted in front of a set of bars, where she was shoved unceremoniously into the cell; she bit her lip hard to refrain from crying out as her knees slammed against the cold marble floors. Unsteadily she rose, and turned to look her captor in the eyes.
Try as she might, Kairi could not avert her gaze, remaining transfixed as he regarded her coolly. His eerie golden eyes seemed to pierce right through her, the horrible cross-shaped scar that rippled across his face divining an adversary against whom she stood not the slightest chance.
"Wh-what do you want with me?" she asked, cradling her broken wrist as she struggled to level the quiver in her voice.
"There is no need to worry," he replied smoothly, lightly trailing a gloved hand across her cheek, wiping away a tear that had begun to fall. "After all, you are a crucial... piece to this little game." The room seemed to drop several degrees in temperature and she felt a shudder pass through her body.
She smacked his hand away and clambered back, putting as much distance between them as the space allowed.
He grinned, revealing, to her surprise, unnaturally sharp canines, before turning to leave.
Kairi watched as the last wisp of darkness dissipated into thin air before slumping against the wall of her cell, pulling her knees in close to her aching body.
And began to cry.