@crimsonkaiser (The Kai and Aichi POV Of This Ask)
He and the White Rabbit had been traveling for quite a while now, the duo visiting various locations in this crazy messed up world with no rules on their way back to the Palace of Hearts. Everything didn’t make sense here, and the more he tried to make sense of it, the more frustrated he got. He’s thankful he at least has Kai to be his guide. Without him, he surely would have gotten lost in the madness by now.
Throughout their travels, which had all been in the span of a single day despite it feeling like weeks, he slowly has gotten to learn more about this place and the rabbit who was guiding him. Aichi could start to see what was hidden behind the layers of madness, the broken state of the world so desperately trying to be vibrant and free. He most noticed it with the talking flowers as they walked through a forest, noticing right away the dullness of their petals and the way their smiles seemed forced whenever Kai would look at them.
This world was...not right, but not because it didn’t make sense to the human clad in blue. It was almost like it was...dying, like how any plant would without water and sunlight. And according to Kai, this was because the heart of the world was breaking, the very heart that belonged to the person the White Rabbit served and who he desperately wanted to return to the side of: The Queen of Hearts.
“Hey, Kai? I...I want to ask you something.” He breaks the silence, the pair now finding themselves in a flower field of roses where one could see the Palce of Hearts in the distance. “This...This Queen you keep talking about...She...She means a lot to you, right? That’s why...you want me to meet her, right? So I can...help her.”
He isn’t sure what he can do to help, but Aichi promise Kai that he would help. He wasn’t exactly the type of guy to let someone who is suffering remain in pain if he could alleviate it, especially since from what Kai said his heart and hers had things in common, whatever that means. He still had trouble wrapping his head around how people here spoke, even if Kai’s language sounded more ‘normal’ than anyone else.
Cerulean hues widen then as the ground before them shakes, his view focusing in on the red wave of energy coming from the tallest spire in the royal palace in the distance. It eventually makes it way to the two, it’s power passing over them like a huge blast of wind that causes the petals of some of the roses to scatter. Aichi’s eyes shut at the intensity, doing his best to not fall over into the flower-filled grass below.
Eventually it does pass though, and when Aichi opens his eyes again, he now gazes upon a wonderous sight. The red roses in the garden, and the petals of them scattering in the wind, all start to glow. In a matter of seconds, the dulled darker red of the flowers start to become vibrant, as bright red as the color of blood. It was striking, a sharp contrast to everything else around them whose colors were still dull and lifeless in comparison.
“Look, Kai! The flowers they’re...brighter! But...just the red ones? Is that normal? And...what was with that light and that earthquake? It looks like it came from the palace.”
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