So here we are, new fic. Sorry it's taken so long, there's just something about 20,000 word dissertations that sap creativity.

Anyway this is a, rather long, set of drabbles about the ladies of FF in Kingdom Hearts.

It crosses over in several places with my other KH fics; Fragments of Memories, Silence and Motion, and Buried in Snow. I'll point out these cross-points, so it's not necessary to read all the others, though it would be nice.

The point of this long introduction is to explain the format. I intended to write linking chapters, but it just wouldn't go that way. Instead, there is a separate strand for each girl, Tifa, Aerith and Yuffie. They do link in some places, so I figured I'd just stick them together. Besides I like the contrasts in personalities.

Please, enjoy!

Disclaimer: Square-Enix own the recognisable bits.

Tifa.

Dusk: the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight; partial darkness; shade; gloom.

Dusk.

Her favourite time of day.

Not quite day, not quite night.

There was a sense of anticipation, of waiting for what was yet to come.

Reaching for the night…

… and yet… still clinging to the day.

So quiet, so still.

At dusk, she could feel everything… hear everything.

It was like time had stopped completely.

It was at dusk that she would think of him.

Would pretend that he was coming back.

Sometimes she actually managed to convince herself that he was still alive, somewhere.

Sometimes she believed that he hadn't forgotten his promise to return.