Innocence is Lost

I look at you, sitting on the trunk of the paupu and staring off into the golden horizon. I’m in-between you and her like I used to do when we were children. Huh, funny that, little more than a year ago we were like we are now and I consider us children. I desperately want to tell you I never liked her like that; I only wanted to be closer to you. But it doesn’t make you jealous or peeved as it once would have, you just continue to stare off towards nothing, your eyes not the ones I remember.

You’re much older, though we are considered children by age, the numerals unreflecting of maturity and inner wisdom. We do not speak, for we don’t have to, now that she has left, we don’t have to pretend for her sake. She wants, not for us to be alright or happy, but for everything to go back to normal- whatever that is. She doesn’t understand the way we do.

I realize I’m staring at you now, and I turn back to the horizon, hoping you didn’t notice. The sun sinks lower, night falls faster, twilight ready to make a brief appearance before succumbing to the light of the moon and stars. The worlds age as do we, one more day gone into eternity… into oblivion.

Are you sure you can trust Riku, Sora?

His words sting because I know you couldn’t answer, if you did, I didn’t hear, and it was probably no, you can’t. But it’s alright, I don’t even trust me.

You and I have seen too much, been through too many trials and hardships on different sides and the same one, but we still have to face what’s coming. I know you have a job to do, as do I, so I’ll just say goodbye.

“Goodbye, Sora,” I say, standing straight, my back leaving the trunk. I walk down the bridge with no intentions of going “home,” but in my own way I am, back home into the darkness. You won’t know, you probably won’t care, for your mission starts soon enough.

I’ll be there in the shadows, watching over you as I’ve always done, making sure you don’t lose yourself in it all, making sure you keep your Light, and I don’t mind because I’ve already lost everything and have nothing left to lose.

Nothing but you, Sora.

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Chapter One of a sort-of ongoing story. Review please! All are welcome.

Lilith