Spiral, Crumbling; FFVIII, PG

Apr 29, 2007 23:45

Title: Spiral, Crumbling
Game: FFVIII
Characters: Ultimecia, Rinoa (?)
Rating/Warning: PG, spoilers for game ending
Notes: For thebaconfat's challenge to write a one-sentence fic about Ultimecia and confusion. What comes, after it all ends?



Spiral, Crumbling

The world bleeds out through her fingers, and she turns around - she will turn around, she will, she will - she turned around, and saw herself swaying toward herself from across a vast ballroom where the walls were melting like wax - like time is the fire - and she clutches after the world as it seeps into the marble floor, but - time shall compress - compress - all existence denied - the drops slide away from her, thinning out into infinity under the soles of the girl's dancing slippers - who will turn out to be someone else, though she has her face, her last face - blank and luminous, reflecting eternity - and as the ceiling of the ballroom crumbled and collapsed, amid great lacy sheets of marble raining down and chandeliers unraveling into gold rope, she asked the girl - why is it all falling apart - and she answers in a voice like pearls sliding over each other - because you got the cause and the effect wrong - I thought I understood - you didn't - turn around again - and so she turned around, around - around, are those footsteps outside the door - and at last draws herself up on a throne under a dead gunmetal sky and utters the only word left to her, "SeeD."

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