Challenge [192]: Walls
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kh_drabbleChallenge [192]: Walls
Title: Universal Endlessness
Word Count: 410
Spoilers: None that I can tell.
Notes: This assumes that some of the people stayed behind in Traverse Town.
The name of Traverse Town explains exactly what the place is; a place for travelers to come, to rest, and then to move on to the next place. It’s always night there, and the inn is always packed. It’s a small town but there are enough buildings that anyone who wants to live there can. Sora is one of the ones who doesn’t but he feels drawn to the place anyway.
The eternal night draws him, the silent candle-lit café that no one hardly goes to. And the familiar figures that stand underneath the orange lights. They haven’t gone home even when home is available again. The small shapes that will never grow up as long as they don’t go home. Like a light-absent Never Land. A place stuck in space and time for those who live there.
Sora is supposed to be born of the light, forged of the heart but for some reason he’s attracted to places where he can’t be seen. Or at least recognized. He liked how disconnected Traverse Town was from everywhere else. It had become almost abandoned after they’d saved the worlds.
There was the front gate, that let Gummi ships out, and there was also a smaller portal hidden behind one of the buildings, one where people could dump trash. Or bodies Riku had once told Sora once half-jokingly. Sora liked to open that little door and stick his legs down over the edge, to stare down into what he imagined was infinity. There was an oxygen bubble all around the town so Sora didn’t suffocate when he had his outings.
The stars twinkled at him and Sora reflected on how the night sky could never possibly be empty. There was just no way that one person; even an ARMY of superpowered beings could wipe out the entire universe. Sora reflected on how arrogant he and his foes were. Sora to think that he could save all of them if he had to, and his enemies to think that they could conquer them all. It was impossible, even in an immortal’s lifetime. Sora was glad that the war –and war it was- ended when it did. If it had continued, it would never have ended. It would have stretched on forever because there was no end to the universe. It might seem empty at times, hollow, but it would never end, no walls would ever close it in. Sora liked it that way.
Title: Universal Endlessness
Word Count: 410
Spoilers: None that I can tell.
Notes: This assumes that some of the people stayed behind in Traverse Town.
The name of Traverse Town explains exactly what the place is; a place for travelers to come, to rest, and then to move on to the next place. It’s always night there, and the inn is always packed. It’s a small town but there are enough buildings that anyone who wants to live there can. Sora is one of the ones who doesn’t but he feels drawn to the place anyway.
The eternal night draws him, the silent candle-lit café that no one hardly goes to. And the familiar figures that stand underneath the orange lights. They haven’t gone home even when home is available again. The small shapes that will never grow up as long as they don’t go home. Like a light-absent Never Land. A place stuck in space and time for those who live there.
Sora is supposed to be born of the light, forged of the heart but for some reason he’s attracted to places where he can’t be seen. Or at least recognized. He liked how disconnected Traverse Town was from everywhere else. It had become almost abandoned after they’d saved the worlds.
There was the front gate, that let Gummi ships out, and there was also a smaller portal hidden behind one of the buildings, one where people could dump trash. Or bodies Riku had once told Sora once half-jokingly. Sora liked to open that little door and stick his legs down over the edge, to stare down into what he imagined was infinity. There was an oxygen bubble all around the town so Sora didn’t suffocate when he had his outings.
The stars twinkled at him and Sora reflected on how the night sky could never possibly be empty. There was just no way that one person; even an ARMY of superpowered beings could wipe out the entire universe. Sora reflected on how arrogant he and his foes were. Sora to think that he could save all of them if he had to, and his enemies to think that they could conquer them all. It was impossible, even in an immortal’s lifetime. Sora was glad that the war –and war it was- ended when it did. If it had continued, it would never have ended. It would have stretched on forever because there was no end to the universe. It might seem empty at times, hollow, but it would never end, no walls would ever close it in. Sora liked it that way.
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:07 am (UTC)The prompt is 'walls' but I think here you've completely flipped it upside down and made it something else. :3 Really great what you've done here.
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Or bodies Riku had once told Sora once half-jokingly.
If the other half of his statement isn't a joke, then, that's kind of scary. xD;
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:25 am (UTC)Well, Riku was trapped in the dark for a while there, it stands to reason that he'd have darker thoughts right? :D