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quirkysmuseFandom: Inuyasha
Title: Children’s Laughter
Theme: Summer
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 288
Rating: G
Character: Kaede
Summary: On summer days, she envied the children when they laughed.
For children, cerulean skies and warm sunlight were perfect for playing. As soon as the village children left their homes, they walked out into the bright day, and their bodies would be hugged by nature, urging them to congregate, play, and bless the village with resounding laughter.
And she envied them.
Though she could remember some happy times, her scarred eye would ache on summer days like today.
Sometimes when she heard children’s laughter, her old mind would transform it into shrieks of pain. Then, she would often reach her hand up to her eye, swearing to feel wetness and expecting it to be blood.
When that happened, she would hear her sister’s cries as well as her own.
And while the children of today would play, a bitter reminder of her own broken youth unsettled in her stomach. She wished that her childhood had been like theirs.
If only she could remember what it was like to be completely innocent and free, to not worry about half demons and wicked-tongued thieves.
She shook her rusted memories away from the foreground of her mind, and she was startled by a tug on her robes.
“Lady Kaede,” she looked down to see a young wide-eyed village girl staring up at her with expansive energy in her eyes. She smiled as Kaede met her gaze, “Will you come play with us?”
Her worries suddenly evaporated as a smile shaped onto her aging face. She nodded, awarded with the young girl’s elation.
Following the girl out to an expansive field of flowers where the other children waited, Kaede figured she may not look like a child anymore, but it was never too late to behave as one once in awhile.
FIN
Title: Children’s Laughter
Theme: Summer
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 288
Rating: G
Character: Kaede
Summary: On summer days, she envied the children when they laughed.
For children, cerulean skies and warm sunlight were perfect for playing. As soon as the village children left their homes, they walked out into the bright day, and their bodies would be hugged by nature, urging them to congregate, play, and bless the village with resounding laughter.
And she envied them.
Though she could remember some happy times, her scarred eye would ache on summer days like today.
Sometimes when she heard children’s laughter, her old mind would transform it into shrieks of pain. Then, she would often reach her hand up to her eye, swearing to feel wetness and expecting it to be blood.
When that happened, she would hear her sister’s cries as well as her own.
And while the children of today would play, a bitter reminder of her own broken youth unsettled in her stomach. She wished that her childhood had been like theirs.
If only she could remember what it was like to be completely innocent and free, to not worry about half demons and wicked-tongued thieves.
She shook her rusted memories away from the foreground of her mind, and she was startled by a tug on her robes.
“Lady Kaede,” she looked down to see a young wide-eyed village girl staring up at her with expansive energy in her eyes. She smiled as Kaede met her gaze, “Will you come play with us?”
Her worries suddenly evaporated as a smile shaped onto her aging face. She nodded, awarded with the young girl’s elation.
Following the girl out to an expansive field of flowers where the other children waited, Kaede figured she may not look like a child anymore, but it was never too late to behave as one once in awhile.
FIN
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on 2005-06-15 01:56 am (UTC)