So on the cybird discord server (link above in my bar) we are doing the Cybird End of Summer Shorts event and here is my fourth entry! Each of these will be a drabble (225 or under) and altogether will make one big story.
#1 https://hydemeincradle.tumblr.com/post/628172671612502016/in-the-snow
#2 https://hydemeincradle.tumblr.com/post/628172892163686400/time-to-go
#3 https://hydemeincradle.tumblr.com/post/628173039611314176/sweet-bribery
The summer was nearly over and I’d escaped to the forest nestling in a tree outside Azuchi. Things would change soon, I would have to pick…
I was a coward, so weak… Stuck between both sides, wanting to protect both but… that was impossible.
Tears blurred my vision, running down my cheeks. What should I do? I couldn’t do nothing and yet I wanted to.
Out here I was alone, I’d always been alone. I’d faked friendships with them all trying to distance myself, I was hurting enough, I didn’t want to add to it.
Footsteps padded along the ground. I sat up, trying to see through my tear soaked eyes; they dropped now down below.
I scrunched my eyes shut. It was her.
I tried to slip away, I couldn’t bring her into this mess.
As she stepped, the ground erupted in light, fireflies burst up and up and up into the sky, dancing, sparkling, glittering around me. I reached out and they slipped between my fingers.
A face peeked up over the branch, barely able to reach where I was sat. “Ranmaru. What are you doing out here alone?”
Her soft hand reached out and took mine, and I looked at her, face illuminated with the light of the fireflies.
