Final Fantasy VI: Cyan/Terra, Five Stages of Day: Evening
Title: After
Author/Artist: rosehiptea
Theme: Five Stages of Day: Evening
Rating: G
Word Count: 249
The sun was setting as Cyan watched from the bow of the Falcon, which would stay on the ground tonight. This was a sunset Cyan thought he would never see, with the war over and Kefka dead, and Terra somehow miraculously still here. It would probably take days or weeks for him to stop taking battle stances at the slightest noise. And it would probably take forever for him to tell Terra how he had felt when he thought she might not be there to see this peace.
She came up to him and stood by his side to look at the sky. "It's beautiful, the sunset."
"My life is in its sunset too," he murmured.
"All our lives are just beginning," she said.
He nodded. "That is also true."
"I don't pretend that I can be another Alayne for you. But if you have room in your heart for me..." She trailed off uncertainly, and Cyan realized she was making a great effort to speak to him of love.
"I cannot lie. Sometimes it does not seem right to love anyone but Alayne. And thou art so young."
"After all I have been through to make sure I even have feelings, don't dismiss mine as childish."
He shook his head. "Very well, I shall not. But... I am still a warrior, and I understand love less than I understand machinery."
Terra smiled. "You can learn."
He picked up her hand and held it. "Yes, I think I can."
Author/Artist: rosehiptea
Theme: Five Stages of Day: Evening
Rating: G
Word Count: 249
The sun was setting as Cyan watched from the bow of the Falcon, which would stay on the ground tonight. This was a sunset Cyan thought he would never see, with the war over and Kefka dead, and Terra somehow miraculously still here. It would probably take days or weeks for him to stop taking battle stances at the slightest noise. And it would probably take forever for him to tell Terra how he had felt when he thought she might not be there to see this peace.
She came up to him and stood by his side to look at the sky. "It's beautiful, the sunset."
"My life is in its sunset too," he murmured.
"All our lives are just beginning," she said.
He nodded. "That is also true."
"I don't pretend that I can be another Alayne for you. But if you have room in your heart for me..." She trailed off uncertainly, and Cyan realized she was making a great effort to speak to him of love.
"I cannot lie. Sometimes it does not seem right to love anyone but Alayne. And thou art so young."
"After all I have been through to make sure I even have feelings, don't dismiss mine as childish."
He shook his head. "Very well, I shall not. But... I am still a warrior, and I understand love less than I understand machinery."
Terra smiled. "You can learn."
He picked up her hand and held it. "Yes, I think I can."