[Yami no Matsuei] (PG)
Author's Note: Written for < lj user="fuda_100">'s "Shangri-La". Featuring Hisoka, musing on Meifu.
Some would think this place a paradise: a world between the worlds where people had had their bodies restored to them, impervious to all but destruction at the hands of a god, never aging beyond the age at which they passed from the mortal world to this place.
That boded well for others, but not for him, considering how young he had died. He would stay a teenager in appearance till the day he paid his debt, when he passed on to his final reward. This weighed on him, but he had someone to help carry the burden of youth.
Some would think this place a paradise: a world between the worlds where people had had their bodies restored to them, impervious to all but destruction at the hands of a god, never aging beyond the age at which they passed from the mortal world to this place.
That boded well for others, but not for him, considering how young he had died. He would stay a teenager in appearance till the day he paid his debt, when he passed on to his final reward. This weighed on him, but he had someone to help carry the burden of youth.