I sit here, my desires
fulfilled. I sit here, my love returned to me. I sit here,
restless...
Why do I sit?
Yuna sprang up from tidus' arms. She looked around for any sign of life besides her hero. She found none. Her body tingled-- she wanted to run somewhere. She didn't care where, how long it would take her, if people would notice. She couldn't stand being idle.
Tidus stirred. He looked
up at mismatched eyes. "yuna..?" he began groggily. "what
are you doing--"
"Let's go. Let's
start something. A new story."
I look at her, puzzled. I
look at the girl who I fell in love with, trying to find the old
Yuna. I look hard, I look deep. I can only see remnants of the
caccoon she must have burst from. This Yuna that I see is free. She
has changed, but she is still Yuna... isn't she?
Why do I still look?
"Where?"
"Anywhere. let's
explore-- let us adventure again!"
She pulled him up from the dirt they had slumbered upon. She was radiant with life and confidence-- not plauged with the knowledge of fate.
"Yuna... I want to
know what happened.. while I was gone."
"I already told you"
"Not enough."
Her face fell. What did he know that she hadn't already told him?
"Yuna. What happened
to you-- not to YuRiPa. Just to you. You're so..."
"Tidus... I'm not
doomed any longer. I'm not the girl who gets used and thrown away.
That's not me. Not any more. Not ever again..."
I listened to that-- I heard a bit of the proper thing she had been raised as. What of her up-bringing now?
He looked into her eyes.
"You're not the high summoner anymore.. then are you?"
"No, I'm not."
He smiled. That was enough.