A/N: I sometimes use my writing to vent my frustrations/fears/concerns/feelings. Most of the time, if I write it out, it helps to purge the bad things from my soul. So I've subjected an anonymous Original Character to my thoughts and feelings and used them as her own. I hope she forgives me.
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And We With Them
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Every day I look across these sand dunes. It's the same view, no matter the direction I'm facing. Just a dull, never changing landscape.
The wind blows and sand shifts. Time makes it's mark on everything, but I don't notice. To me, the world has stopped spinning and everything is frozen in a sea of hot sand and dry air.
Trapped. That's how I feel.
And alone.
Does the sand ever give way to anything else? There's a beautiful sea beyond our home, but it might as well be a make-believe place in a fairytale for all that I know.
I'm destined to spend my life here, aren't I? I'll become like the world around me. Dull. Never changing.
'All things change,' I can hear my best friend say. She used to say that a lot. I used to listen. Now she's on a salvage ship in the sea, and I'm left here with my dark thoughts and no one to tear me away from them. I have become a different person without her. I think I rely on other people too much.
As I'm looking out at the horizon, the wind dies down and some of the dust in the air settles. I close my eyes, willing myself to visualize something other than this place, perhaps on the ship with my friend. My mind won't cooperate, though. I sigh.
The sun is setting. I should go in and get ready for bed. Tomorrow, I will get up and go to work. And then, when I come home, I will stare out my window as I do every day and look at these same sand dunes. And meanwhile, time will still be making it's mark on the world around me, and I still won't notice.
"All things change..." I say out loud. Those are just words to me. They mean nothing.
But I will repeat them to myself every day, until I start to believe them.
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~fin~
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A/N #2: The best friend mentioned is, indeed, Rikku. This drabble would take place around the beginning of FF X when she was on the salvage ship.