Compel Your Black Eyes

Epilogue - Sunbeam

Fai walked past the drawn curtains lazily, not even bothering to look at them. Seeing more rain would just dampen his mood some more. But then, something caught his appeal. For from a tiny slit between the two curtains, the golden glow of a sunbeam trailed delicately into the room and lay like a shining glimmer of summery hope on the carpet about an inch away from Fai's toes.

Within the next few minutes, all the curtains were drawn, and Fai was dressed.

"Come on!" Fai strung his words together excitedly, "Why are you walking so slowly? For once, it's actually sunny! Look up at that sky and tell me you don't want to run around under it!"

Kurogane rubbed the back of his neck, sleepily, "Wasn't it you who said to relax and take in the surroundings?"

Fai pondered this for a moment, "Never mind that!" he laughed, looking straight out at the golden-doused horizon, "You know, we'll be left behind if you go any slower! The world will just keep on turning and turning!"

Kurogane flickered his eyes to Fai. The sun was once again reflecting on the surface of Fai's blond head, making his whole being seem to glow as he stood, waiting impatiently for Kurogane and talking of the world leaving the two of them behind. Kurogane suddenly reached out and grabbed Fai's skinny wrist pulling them both down onto the grass, and with a rare smirk, he uttered something, almost affectionately;

"Then let it."