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@zephyrr
❛ you too huh ? ❜ a bouncy and vibrant tone sounded from the stairway , kairi seated on the steps leading up to the land of departure’s castle . with a small laugh she waves ventus over , elbows on her knees and chin resting against palms . ❛ i get it as well ─── the overprotectiveness . pain in the butt sometimes , right ? ❜
zephyrr liked your post:“…Sora, or Ventus.”
“Perish.”
@zephyrr / prompt. “ you don’t know what it’s like to feel like nothing at all . ”
❛ ... ❜ how one statement alone could surge every hardship in his life to the forefront was kind of astounding ; the loss of his world and how being catapulted out into the lanes between left him to be eaten away from the inside out by his own festering darkness , how it’d manifested and grown so strong due to the prolonged exposure that it formed an entirely new being bent on dragging him down with it , the loss of a friend and with it what remained of his own lingering light ...
all of it , every single moment flashed behind his eyes like a screen on fast forward ─── cloud felt ... a little sick .
but this boy was hurting just as much as he was ─── he could see it in his eyes , hear it in his contempt , was it really cloud’s place to insist on his own anguish ? arguing over who hurt the most wouldn’t get them anywhere , nor did it sound like a conversation cloud was willing to ignite .
instead , he simply looked away .
❛ ... maybe you’re right . i don’t know what it’s like . ❜
@zephyrr: “let me take care of you, for once.”
❛ but ─── ❜ a new record , perhaps , for how quickly sora begun his complaining ─── a pout settling in as ventus doesn’t even listen and gets on his way to caring for the injury he sustained in their last big battle . ❛ ven , you really don’t have to . ❜
he felt a little bad , getting help like this ... it was ven who should be getting pampered , he’d only recently started to move again without crutches ... ❛ c’mooon , you’re making me feel bad ! ❜ sora teased , prodding ventus’ stomach with a toe . ❛ hey , are you even listening ? ! ❜
@zephyrr cont.
Naminé shakes her head softly. It’s nothing he needs to apologize for, he’s been asleep while this all happened, if there’s someone who’s not to blame for this it’s him.
And it’s weird to be awoken, it’s weird to feel like a different person, this body feels different, but maybe it’s just that she’s no longer used to having one, she could still do so much as a will inside Kairi’s heart, move so freely, it’s weird to come back to this. Although she wouldn’t have it any other way.
She smiles, puts her hand over her heart. ❝ I know, we’ll all here. ❞ Well, she’s missing someone but she doesn’t know if she can ever see him again. ❝ Your friends are also here for you. Terra. When I was reaching for him, I could see his memories, could see how much he cares for you and Aqua. That’s why he came back, for you. ❞
@zephyrr: “it’s okay to cry in front of me, you know. you don’t have to carry this alone.”
those words held compassion and that tone housed worry , a message sora knew was meant entirely as a form of comfort , of friendship ─── all he felt was a rush of anxiety , a strange and unwelcome fear that he’d been found out ; secret tarnished .
no , the sky was not always blue .
no , you weren’t allowed to know that .
it was silly , he knew , but it was there and sora couldn’t shake it ; instead , he smiled , wide and seamless like wallpaper hiding an ugly paint job abandoned underneath for something easier , something prettier .
❛ uh , thanks for the offer , ven , but ... i’m good ! really ─── it’s no burden ! ❜ an eager grasp of his fist as if his words weren’t enough . could he hide really ? from someone like ventus , someone who’d seen his heart , his rises and his falls , for almost the entire expanse of his lifetime ?
god , he hoped so , because this wasn’t a facade he was ready to break just yet .
❛ come on ─── we really should be going . ❜
❝ you’re good enough. ❞
things that you want to hear. | Accepting
And just like that, his crown didn’t feel as heavy.
Not realizing tears had already started to sting the corner of his eyes, he looks up at Ventus with a bewildered expression. It was as if the older read his mind, seeing him stare off into space in uncertainty after all his ministers had left his side.
For a boy king was just a boy. Not even 15 years old yet and he already had so much to do, so much to learn, so much to care for. It wasn’t even that he was worried about himself, or how he could handle it. No, he was worried about his people. Their needs, their wants, their judgement. The latter is where he felt like he was faltering - until Ventus spoke up.
“Ven-” His voice almost cracks, almost. He sniffs, pushing the tears out of his eyes with his sleeve before nodding. “Right….Right!”
He smiles, and though weak it somehow still shines bright. “Thank you.”
@zephyrr has followed!
“Uh...mister? What are you staring at?”
Part of the child should run off back to the Traverse Town hotel and lock the door or run off to Mr. Geppetto’s home to hide. After all, he shouldn’t be talking to strangers. Yet, the child hadn’t budged as he stared back at the blond haired young man. There was...There was something familiar about him, but the child couldn’t put his finger on what exactly.
He huffed and then put his hands on his hips as gold eyes sparkled as he scolded at blond. “Don’t you know it’s not nice to just stare at people? Mr. Geppetto says it’s not nice to do that!”
The raven haired needed to get back to the hotel and work on his homework.
