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kh_drabbleChallenge: 245 - Radiant Garden
Title: Another Road
Word Count: 257
Notes: BBS spoilers! Very much so. Also, AU I think. I'm honestly not sure, I just wanted these characters to talk to each other, okay? Okay. :)
The monsters have been swarming all too often of late, and being surrounded in the outer gardens, he does appreciate any help available. The stranger is skilled, as well, with a weighted grace to his movements that speaks to the earth in Aeleus. But it is odd, because he is sure this young man is not a native to the Garden.
That suspicion is confirmed when he dismisses his weapon into thin air.
It would be better not to draw attention to the fact, he thinks. When he turns to speak, with a decidedly awkward expression, Aeleus simply asks, “What is your name?”
“Terra. And you are?”
There is still something suspicious in that gaze, which in turn has him on guard. “A suitable name,” he says softly, and then speaks up, “please, accept the castle’s hospitality for the night.”
“The castle?” he ask, a little wide eyed. Then he shakes his head and speaks more as if to remind himself than to respond to the offer, “No, I can’t. I’m looking for someone.”
He shakes his head, gesturing towards the setting sun. “In the dark, with the monsters about? It would be better to wait until the morning. Then I could help you look for this person?”
Terra seems to mull it over before nodding. “That would be better.” As he follows Aeleus towards the castle, he mutters quietly, “Master Xenahort wouldn’t be out wandering in the dark, anyway.”
He thinks it is quite to his credit that he does not visibly react to that name.
Title: Another Road
Word Count: 257
Notes: BBS spoilers! Very much so. Also, AU I think. I'm honestly not sure, I just wanted these characters to talk to each other, okay? Okay. :)
The monsters have been swarming all too often of late, and being surrounded in the outer gardens, he does appreciate any help available. The stranger is skilled, as well, with a weighted grace to his movements that speaks to the earth in Aeleus. But it is odd, because he is sure this young man is not a native to the Garden.
That suspicion is confirmed when he dismisses his weapon into thin air.
It would be better not to draw attention to the fact, he thinks. When he turns to speak, with a decidedly awkward expression, Aeleus simply asks, “What is your name?”
“Terra. And you are?”
There is still something suspicious in that gaze, which in turn has him on guard. “A suitable name,” he says softly, and then speaks up, “please, accept the castle’s hospitality for the night.”
“The castle?” he ask, a little wide eyed. Then he shakes his head and speaks more as if to remind himself than to respond to the offer, “No, I can’t. I’m looking for someone.”
He shakes his head, gesturing towards the setting sun. “In the dark, with the monsters about? It would be better to wait until the morning. Then I could help you look for this person?”
Terra seems to mull it over before nodding. “That would be better.” As he follows Aeleus towards the castle, he mutters quietly, “Master Xenahort wouldn’t be out wandering in the dark, anyway.”
He thinks it is quite to his credit that he does not visibly react to that name.
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Date: 2010-11-14 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-15 07:22 am (UTC)Then Braig showed up and I got over it. Mostly. The image never did leave my head, though. I'm glad the dialogue works, too, they're neither of them great talkers.
Terra more so than Aeleus, but frankly Aeleus is better with words when he wants to be. Lexaeus's talk with Riku in COM is still one of my favorite bits.