by StarWolf
9/11/2005
Title: Temainina
Author: StarWolf (elendraug at yahoo dot com)
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX
Rating: PG
Genre: Tragedy
Pairing: N/A
Warnings: Canon death.
Disclaimer: Square's, not mine.
Distribution: Don't archive it, please.
Summary: Made to fade.
Author's Notes: For Pseudofox. Theme: "silent sky." Summary from Massive Attack's "Dissolved Girl."
He's been here before.
The ladder was not nearly so formidable this time; with relative ease, he'd scaled the once-petrifying height. Now he stands perched atop the steeple, waiting in his memory for a play that is not to be performed tonight.
At the end of all things, what else could be more fitting than a return to the beginning? The wind steals his hat, flinging it to the mercy of spiralling updrafts of autumnal air.
Closing his eyes, he counts backwards from an infinity of used numbers. In retrospect, it took little to watch the days cascade to a final winding-down.
More or less a year; few left, and slowly dwindling with the passing seconds.
eight
"i so happy..."
seven
three beats in a measure
six
288
five
"i shall assist you!"
four
"can we go see dagger?"
three
"thank you, mr. zidane."
two
prince of burmecia
one
grandpa...
Vivi stops.