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spandexisyouth) wrote2012-08-22 04:05 am
spandexisyouth) wrote2012-08-22 04:05 am
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Shadowsphere Dream
There’s a house in front of him, an ordinary white house with green handprints on the side, and he walks toward it. Behind it is a giant trunk, some massive tree, and no breeze he knows can ever make those limbs move. He stares at the door, remembers it opening time and again, faces he once knew arriving, and then departing, people passing through, coming and going, because that’s what one did. They came and they went.
Some of them were young. A little pink-haired girl who giggled, carrying candy, another who made him think of a puppy, as if she’d been one. Some were closer to teenage, a boy with dark eyes and dark hair much like his, laughing as he came in for a hug, a girl with long red hair and a warming smile. Older yet, a man with tousled hair, always snacking, along with... a brother, with similar dark hair and an entirely goofy grin. Another with longer brown hair, putting his arm around one with white hair, also somehow brothers. A woman with long dark hair who looked like she wanted to embrace him and stab him at the same time. A girl with purple-pink hair, looking up at the stars. A man with a fan who watched and smiled, a fiery-haired man who grinned even as he plotted. And yet another red-headed man, but his grin was mischief mixed in with that plotting. A white-haired woman with a face of steel, another white-haired woman with a laugh that was loud and infectious. A giant bird, leaning in for a hug. A man who was also a cat, holding an apple.
Their faces kept coming, flashing past, and he knew them all and yet didn’t. The dark-skinned man on top of the beaten-up car, leaning in close. The age-weathered man, smoking, looking out at the darkness as if it was a personal affront. The warm and mischievous woman, eyes sparkling even though there were snakes around.
Each step brought a new face and a rush of emotion. The grey man, faded and desperate. The woman with rainbow hair who laughed and mocked and wanted to fade.
Finally he was there, at the door, and it opened easily. There was a flicker of motion and he was embraced by two people, one tall and one small, as little shapes bounced around his feet. This wasn’t home, but it was a home, and he felt at home.
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[[For reference, in order:
First paragraph: Chibiusa, Nova, Lee, Orihime, Topher, Castle, Lyle, Kakashi, Soi Fon, Stellaris, Huo, Axel, Rabbit, Handmaiden, Seren, Above, Shoanji.
Second paragraph: Handwavily a bunch of others who I may have forgotten. Ghost, Vimes, Romana.
Third: Fugue, Cancer.
Fourth: Kakashi, Lee, dogs.]]
Some of them were young. A little pink-haired girl who giggled, carrying candy, another who made him think of a puppy, as if she’d been one. Some were closer to teenage, a boy with dark eyes and dark hair much like his, laughing as he came in for a hug, a girl with long red hair and a warming smile. Older yet, a man with tousled hair, always snacking, along with... a brother, with similar dark hair and an entirely goofy grin. Another with longer brown hair, putting his arm around one with white hair, also somehow brothers. A woman with long dark hair who looked like she wanted to embrace him and stab him at the same time. A girl with purple-pink hair, looking up at the stars. A man with a fan who watched and smiled, a fiery-haired man who grinned even as he plotted. And yet another red-headed man, but his grin was mischief mixed in with that plotting. A white-haired woman with a face of steel, another white-haired woman with a laugh that was loud and infectious. A giant bird, leaning in for a hug. A man who was also a cat, holding an apple.
Their faces kept coming, flashing past, and he knew them all and yet didn’t. The dark-skinned man on top of the beaten-up car, leaning in close. The age-weathered man, smoking, looking out at the darkness as if it was a personal affront. The warm and mischievous woman, eyes sparkling even though there were snakes around.
Each step brought a new face and a rush of emotion. The grey man, faded and desperate. The woman with rainbow hair who laughed and mocked and wanted to fade.
Finally he was there, at the door, and it opened easily. There was a flicker of motion and he was embraced by two people, one tall and one small, as little shapes bounced around his feet. This wasn’t home, but it was a home, and he felt at home.
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[[For reference, in order:
First paragraph: Chibiusa, Nova, Lee, Orihime, Topher, Castle, Lyle, Kakashi, Soi Fon, Stellaris, Huo, Axel, Rabbit, Handmaiden, Seren, Above, Shoanji.
Second paragraph: Handwavily a bunch of others who I may have forgotten. Ghost, Vimes, Romana.
Third: Fugue, Cancer.
Fourth: Kakashi, Lee, dogs.]]