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<center>To be continued...</center> | <center>To be continued...</center> | ||
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The girl adorned in shadows peers through the broken window into another time | The girl adorned in shadows peers through the broken window into another time.<br>Her smile returns. | ||
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What a fool she was.<br>Not the girl in white, no.<br>Her. | |||
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The vision in the glass is no memory. | |||
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It cannot be, of course.<br>What she's seeing is a future: a future that she should have expected,<br>the fool, the idiot dreamer. | |||
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The glass shows an unmistakable image of herself, run through with a jagged pillar of glass,<br>the wound seeming to sear her clothing and body apart in a blistering, pale, and consuming flame. | |||
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A sense of danger wells up in her, and though she can't understand why, she can feel it there.<br> | The blank, barren lands of Arcaea stretch out far behind her, and before her,<br>coaxing the pillar with a lifted hand and a blinding, fiery glow around her shoulders,<br>is a girl clad in white, a very familiar one, though her expression is hidden from this vantage. | ||
In fact, shadows now seem to be crawling up from the earth, light perishing at their touch.<br> | <br> | ||
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Darkness nears her, and her breathing shortens. She takes a step back.<br> | It is the girl standing before her now.<br>The one she has only just met.<br>This is no memory: it's a vision of what will come to be. | ||
She almost can't believe it. She certainly doesn't want to.<br> | <br> | ||
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Even after surviving the harrowing ordeal, that blinding light sky,<br> | Faced with this, Tairitsu retreats into herself,<br>and confronts the one truth she was determined to ignore. | ||
something terrible faces her again without reason.<br> | <br> | ||
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But still, she had survived it.<br> | Her conviction didn't matter.<br>She will never find anything good for her in this world. | ||
And now she knows for certain that survival may not allow compromise.<br> | <br> | ||
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With this thought in heart and mind, Hikari makes a damning mistake.<br> | That last hope is dyed black now, drowned in despair, forgotten. | ||
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She reaches for the one piece of glass,<br> | What else would happen?<br>What was her hope for?<br>Idiocy. Tiresome, blind idiocy. | ||
the one that gave her comfort and direction in the midst of her lowest moment.<br> | <br> | ||
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When she raises it to her chest,<br> | Tiresome effort.<br>Tiresome memories.<br>Tiresome existence. | ||
the hairs on the back of Tairitsu's neck rise up as well.<br> | <br> | ||
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Fear pulsing through her, along with a conviction to never meet with tragedy again,<br> | Tiresome, awful, sick of it. Sick of this, sick of herself,<br>sick of everything in this never-ending, mocking play. | ||
Tairitsu closes the distance to Hikari in an instant, without warning,<br> | <br> | ||
ready to once and for all firmly grab hold of her life.<br> | <br> | ||
Miracles? No... | |||
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She'd said it herself. This world is hell.<br>And she knows this, from the fractured ideas of worlds dead and gone:<br>even angels can one day fall and awaken to demonic form. | |||
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The girl in light is just like that.<br>In a turn final and damning, what was once a mere pit inside her chest is clawed and spread.<br>It wastes, decays all through in an instant, leaving instead a cold and endless chasm. | |||
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As the darkness within it creeps out to coat her insides and choke her thoughts,<br>she sees Hikari very clearly. | |||
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Sees her gaze darting to the shard—sees the panic, the clear knowledge in her eyes. | |||
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The girl knows.<br>And now she can't face her opposite's stare,<br>won't say a word though she sees clearly. | |||
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You're unnerved? Unsettled? Unabashed.<br>Unforgivable. | |||
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That anger twists into hate and loathing, spilling over and arriving in her eyes. | |||
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Wicked betrayer; wicked, wicked place.<br>She tightens her grasp on her parasol,<br> | |||
looking past the shard to Hikari, who is standing still. | |||
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Frozen in place, surely, because her ill intentions have been exposed.<br>It's worth laughing about. | |||
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Tairitsu's eyes narrow, and she excises the remains of those burgeoning emotions<br>the girl had begun to cultivate within her. | |||
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With finality she is emptied,<br>and with that, she knows what she must do. | |||
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But this mirror is still one-way, and thus her anger as well.<br>Hikari is unable to see within this peculiar shard at all. | |||
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Unaware, she can only watch in confusion<br>as Tairitsu's countenance drains more and more of color. | |||
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A sense of danger wells up in her, and though she can't understand why, she can feel it there.<br>In fact, shadows now seem to be crawling up from the earth, light perishing at their touch. | |||
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Darkness nears her, and her breathing shortens. She takes a step back.<br>She almost can't believe it. She certainly doesn't want to. | |||
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Even after surviving the harrowing ordeal, that blinding light sky,<br>something terrible faces her again without reason. | |||
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But still, she had survived it.<br>And now she knows for certain that survival may not allow compromise. | |||
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With this thought in heart and mind, Hikari makes a damning mistake. | |||
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She reaches for the one piece of glass,<br>the one that gave her comfort and direction in the midst of her lowest moment. | |||
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When she raises it to her chest,<br>the hairs on the back of Tairitsu's neck rise up as well. | |||
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Fear pulsing through her, along with a conviction to never meet with tragedy again,<br>Tairitsu closes the distance to Hikari in an instant, without warning,<br>ready to once and for all firmly grab hold of her life. | |||
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<center>To be continued...</center> | |||
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