Disclaimer: Peacemaker Kurogane belongs to people who are not me.
Note: I have always said that I could never ever, ever write something consisting only of a hundred words. So...I felt like a challenge. It's a hundred words! (faints)
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Courtship
Souji can't sleep.
He sweats, but the night air has never been colder. Soon...
Staring up at the ceiling, he counts the cracks that are gradually splitting the wood. Soon...
Every now and then his infliction causes him to taste the coppery bitterness of his insides, to be reminded of his own cracks, and how eventually, he too will succumb to them.
Soon...From outside, a faint mewling reaches his ears and he shivers. Soon...
The wind whispers seductively. Soon...
He closes his eyes.
It's nights like these Souji wishes Death would just end her courtship and claim him.
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