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kh_drabbleChallenge: [276] Breaking Barriers.
Title: Now I.
Word Count: 547.
Spoilers: None major.
Characters: Kairi, Selphie.
Summary: Once, all the worlds were one. And so it can be again.
“Hey, Selphie?”
“What is it, Kairi?”
“Do you ever want to go out to sea and just keep going, right over the horizon?” Kairi looked at the waves, golden in the afternoon light. The sun lit a path across the water, and she found herself wanting to follow it, sure that there was something wonderful at the other end. Is this what Riku always saw? she wondered.
Selphie looked confused. “Why would I? I mean, if there was another island, I’d love to go see it, but there’s nothing there.”
For a moment Kairi thought she felt the worlds, strung together by silver wire from heart to heart. But she knew she couldn’t really feel them. They were separated from one another, for everyone’s safety. But the darkness is one, she thought traitorously. The danger goes everywhere. “No. There’s nothing there.”
“Is this about that game you guys always used to play?” Selphie asked.
“What game?” Kairi said without thinking.
“You know, making all those plans and acting like you were going to go to another world,” she said. “It really looked like fun. You were all so serious about it! I was soooo jealous!”
“A…game?” Kairi didn’t know how to say that it wasn’t a game, that it had never been a game, that even when they had been playing they had been playing for real. But for Selphie, for Tidus and Wakka, for everyone else she knew, there were no other worlds, because there was no proof they existed outside of fairy tales. I came from another world, she reminded herself. I am the proof. Even if her mother had given her origin up as a mystery years ago rather than start believing in fairy tales, Kairi knew.
There were so many worlds out there. Why should Selphie only know this one?
She felt the light rising in her like a tide and knew that right now, anything could happen. Right now, she could grant wishes, if they were the right ones.
“Come on!” she called and, pulling Selphie by the hand, began to run down the hill towards the beach.
“Kairi? What is it? Why are you in such a hurry all of a sudden?” But she followed.
The sun’s path on the water was golden and inviting. Kairi could see its last fading glints in the breaking waves right in front of her feet. She could feel it, running up and out, turning silver as it passed from sun to moon, until it landed in front of another castle. This path she could never unlearn. She had traveled it once before, light and magic piercing through the wall she could feel built across the path.
What had been done once could be done again. She let the light flow through her, a rainbow in her heart, and stepping forward, she wished.
There was a shattering like the breaking of glass, and the wall fell before her.
Selphie let out a small scream. Kairi opened her eyes and saw that she was standing on the golden path that stretched off into the distance.
She smiled and held out her hand. “Are you coming?”
“Am I!” Selphie scrambled up onto the path and, hand in hand, they ran off into the rest of the story.
Title: Now I.
Word Count: 547.
Spoilers: None major.
Characters: Kairi, Selphie.
Summary: Once, all the worlds were one. And so it can be again.
“Hey, Selphie?”
“What is it, Kairi?”
“Do you ever want to go out to sea and just keep going, right over the horizon?” Kairi looked at the waves, golden in the afternoon light. The sun lit a path across the water, and she found herself wanting to follow it, sure that there was something wonderful at the other end. Is this what Riku always saw? she wondered.
Selphie looked confused. “Why would I? I mean, if there was another island, I’d love to go see it, but there’s nothing there.”
For a moment Kairi thought she felt the worlds, strung together by silver wire from heart to heart. But she knew she couldn’t really feel them. They were separated from one another, for everyone’s safety. But the darkness is one, she thought traitorously. The danger goes everywhere. “No. There’s nothing there.”
“Is this about that game you guys always used to play?” Selphie asked.
“What game?” Kairi said without thinking.
“You know, making all those plans and acting like you were going to go to another world,” she said. “It really looked like fun. You were all so serious about it! I was soooo jealous!”
“A…game?” Kairi didn’t know how to say that it wasn’t a game, that it had never been a game, that even when they had been playing they had been playing for real. But for Selphie, for Tidus and Wakka, for everyone else she knew, there were no other worlds, because there was no proof they existed outside of fairy tales. I came from another world, she reminded herself. I am the proof. Even if her mother had given her origin up as a mystery years ago rather than start believing in fairy tales, Kairi knew.
There were so many worlds out there. Why should Selphie only know this one?
She felt the light rising in her like a tide and knew that right now, anything could happen. Right now, she could grant wishes, if they were the right ones.
“Come on!” she called and, pulling Selphie by the hand, began to run down the hill towards the beach.
“Kairi? What is it? Why are you in such a hurry all of a sudden?” But she followed.
The sun’s path on the water was golden and inviting. Kairi could see its last fading glints in the breaking waves right in front of her feet. She could feel it, running up and out, turning silver as it passed from sun to moon, until it landed in front of another castle. This path she could never unlearn. She had traveled it once before, light and magic piercing through the wall she could feel built across the path.
What had been done once could be done again. She let the light flow through her, a rainbow in her heart, and stepping forward, she wished.
There was a shattering like the breaking of glass, and the wall fell before her.
Selphie let out a small scream. Kairi opened her eyes and saw that she was standing on the golden path that stretched off into the distance.
She smiled and held out her hand. “Are you coming?”
“Am I!” Selphie scrambled up onto the path and, hand in hand, they ran off into the rest of the story.
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Date: 2011-11-15 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-15 04:36 am (UTC)This is pretty much par for the course with me.