Rain: Break

Angsty

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Eirika stares hard across the battlement. Built upon the edge of a cliff, the fortress overlooks the ocean and the tang of the sea reached even to this height. Dark clouds loomed on the horizon. Her smile is grim; the day fits her mood.

She doesn't turn when the footsteps sound on the stone behind her. It's him. He wants something again, perhaps the same thing that he desired the last time. He moves closer and she steps stiffly away. "Eirika..."

"No."

He stops, stunned by the refusal.

"Never again." Her hands are trembling and Eirika hides it by clasping them in front of her. "You broke my trust that day."

The winds pick up lightly, the taste of rain is on the air. Eirika pulls herself up to stand upon the battlement. A quick glance down leaves her light-headed momentarily, but she ignores it to focus instead on her calculations. She sways lightly and shifts a half-step to the right.

"Eirika, what do you want?"

He sounds suddenly uncertain, where before he had been full of confidence. She ignores him, taking a deep breath while the wind plays with her hair. Letting the air out slowly, she finally glances over her shoulder.

"You should have asked that a long time ago."

Her glance reveals another climbing hastily to the battlements. Not much time left. Turning back to the ocean, she takes another deep breath. "Now it's too late."

"Eirika!" She hears that other voice shout, the one person that she's wanted for what seems an eternity. If she could have had what she wished... But she can't let him stop her either, or her wish will never be. If this works, she will find him again.

"Forgive me, Seth." She can hear her knight rushing up the steps, and so she jumps.

"Eirika!!!" Eirika can barely hear the pain filled cry over the sudden rushing of the wind in her ears. She shifts and angles herself better towards the water, catching one last glimpse of the castle above her. Her heart stops.

NO! He doesn't have the calculations!

And then Eirika strikes the water and the rain begins to fall.

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Below the hubbub in the fortress and hidden from prying eyes by the rain, a young woman aids an injured man ashore. They vanish together in the storm.

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Rumors fly after the death of the Princess of Renais. Some postulate that she and her secret lover had thrown themselves into the sea after having been denied the right to wed. Others say that she was deranged and shoved her lover into the sea before following after him.

Only one person knows the truth about why Eirika threw herself into the sea...

He isn't sharing.

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Omake

Alternately... Rumor states that Eirika wanted a bath, but the fortress didn't have any inside. Seth merely slipped when bringing her the soap. :P

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AN: Subjecting you to more of my morbid imagination. Angsty with a good(?) sort of, kind of ending? Ah, who am I kidding? I just like writing about this pairing, though I suck at placing them in good situations at times.

Faked death. Yes, Eirika was faking her death. I already killed her and Seth in a previous story and couldn't bear to do it again. And since the fates willed it, both survived the jump.

Nameless person? No idea. Or rather, he is whoever you think he is.