Unofficially for the 30 breath takes community

Pairing: AllenxRinali
Theme: (2) sun on your face
Title: Shine
Author/Artist: CI

Shine

Rinali doesn't get sick.

She also doesn't get colds or suffer from allergies. That's what she says anyway, and as pragmatic as she is, she is especially stubborn if someone says otherwise.

Today she is especially flushed, as everyone points out, and every time it is mentioned she says it's the weather which troubles her.

Her explanation is a half truth, for the past week has been dreary dark and wet. Everything is dusted with gray ash which always reminds everyone of the war. These are the periods she is most restless, these are the periods she is at her worst.

Rinali hasn't seen the sun in a week and is currently bedridden by her own volition; slowly she sinks into the shadows of her room, half awake and half conscious and fully aware of her own condition.

She'll wait, and wait and wait for the sun.

The room is without light so she is faintly aware of the door opening. Her eyes tighten when an ethereal light sucks the tepid air from her lungs and she is snatched into a draft. The air is frigidly crisp and yet comforting.

And then there is sun and her whole body is warm and for a minute her eyes seem to be nonexistent, as if halted by the leer of the shine.

She is outside. It is sunny. He has returned.

When she opens her eyes Allen is holding her, a halo of sunlight shining his white hair silver. He smiles, she inhales.

Allen looks at her chidingly but in good humor, "Rinali, you know it's not healthy to be cooped in that castle for too long."

She smiles with a peaceful look on her sun-kissed face, "I know."

Rinali doesn't get sick, she doesn't get colds or have allergies; she suffers from the weather of her environment, she suffers from being an exorcist.

On the worst of days she is just in need of sun and Allen always brought back the sun.