Title: Rise Above
Fandom: Ghost Hound
Spoilers: None
Tinnitus flickered in Tarou's ears. It was a raw buzzing noise and he couldn't hear what was being said. He felt his eyelids grown leaden. He couldn't hold them open. Cataplexy set in; his fingers were numb and nerveless and he couldn't move them. Suddenly limp, his book thumped to the ground.
He pushed off from his body like a springboard and rose above Masayuki and Makoto.
Masayuki shifted his suddenly limp body so that Tarou's head lay in his lap and stroked his hair. He still had tinnitus; he couldn't hear what either of them was saying over the buzzing fury around him.
He rose up through the ceiling of the library, through the classrooms and finally up through the roof of the school.
All of Suiten was laid out beneath him. Spectral lava rolled down the mountain in the distance and phantom animals wove their way between the students dining on the roof of the school.