[215] Begin at the End
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kh_drabbleChallenge: [215] Begin at the End
Title: Child's Play
Word Count: 236
Summary: Kairi after the fall of Radiant Garden.
You can’t help but marvel as you watch her tear up the road after those two little boys she’s always with these days. It’s hard to believe how much she’s changed from that shivering, wailing little thing that was brought here little over a year ago, on the night of that storm, to see her smile now, you’d hardly have believed that she spent the first solid week alternating between all-consuming panic and trying to run away if you hadn’t been there to see it all first hand. To hear her chattering away matter of factly about school or her new friends, you’d never have thought that she’d spent ever night for months on end crying about fire and shadows that crawled through the dark if you hadn’t been there trying to reassure her each time.
It’s amazing how resilient children are. She’s stopped asking for people you’ve never heard of and started concentrating on her new life, on the growing peace in her heart. If the stories she told you are even half true, then her ability to heal- to forget- is surely all the more astounding.
There will come a day, years from now, when she will ask curiously about what lies beyond the islands, and when you will look away, not knowing what to say. Until then, you watch her run and laugh and play, and thank the gods she’s still so young.
Title: Child's Play
Word Count: 236
Summary: Kairi after the fall of Radiant Garden.
You can’t help but marvel as you watch her tear up the road after those two little boys she’s always with these days. It’s hard to believe how much she’s changed from that shivering, wailing little thing that was brought here little over a year ago, on the night of that storm, to see her smile now, you’d hardly have believed that she spent the first solid week alternating between all-consuming panic and trying to run away if you hadn’t been there to see it all first hand. To hear her chattering away matter of factly about school or her new friends, you’d never have thought that she’d spent ever night for months on end crying about fire and shadows that crawled through the dark if you hadn’t been there trying to reassure her each time.
It’s amazing how resilient children are. She’s stopped asking for people you’ve never heard of and started concentrating on her new life, on the growing peace in her heart. If the stories she told you are even half true, then her ability to heal- to forget- is surely all the more astounding.
There will come a day, years from now, when she will ask curiously about what lies beyond the islands, and when you will look away, not knowing what to say. Until then, you watch her run and laugh and play, and thank the gods she’s still so young.
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Date: 2010-01-30 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-01-31 09:42 am (UTC)then her ability to heal- to forget- is surely all the more astounding. And I loved the ending! Really nice job!
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