A/N: Written for the Digimon Flash bingo, #265 – we've already met.
Sticking to Introductions
It's just a dance of social niceties.
They meet again and again, each year, but each meeting is still the first. Not between themselves – but then again, they never meet alone as well. There's a new recruit, a new champion, someone to introduce, someone to stand in the shadow so they don't blind themselves on the past again.
But the past is gone and they're strangers now. Rivals who keep on introducing themselves because that's all they'll be and they know it. The past showed them that when they tried to be more, and now they try and be less just so they don't wind up tempted by that blinking light again.
And they have the shadows to support them in that. Their champions. Their new recruits. Excuses to go over and introduce themselves again, pretend they're strangers again, dance this dance again –
– and never get past.