FFXVI, Three Sentence Ficlet
Mar. 2nd, 2024 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seleniasany, any, even if it feels endless and impossible from the middle
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"All of this meaningless slaughter — what’s it for? What have bearers ever done but aid others?”
Cid exhales and lays his palm across Jill’s shoulder; she’s cold and righteous with fury, and it’s a useful emotion when directed to its proper place — though she’s aimless now, trapped in the whirlwind of connecting the messy realities he’s been trying to be rid of, and he sympathizes; the road ahead will have them wading through pools of grief before ever finding an answer. “If there’s a reason out there, I expect we’ll find it together."
"All of this meaningless slaughter — what’s it for? What have bearers ever done but aid others?”
Cid exhales and lays his palm across Jill’s shoulder; she’s cold and righteous with fury, and it’s a useful emotion when directed to its proper place — though she’s aimless now, trapped in the whirlwind of connecting the messy realities he’s been trying to be rid of, and he sympathizes; the road ahead will have them wading through pools of grief before ever finding an answer. “If there’s a reason out there, I expect we’ll find it together."
