I don't know… some hints in this fic could be taken for Shonen ai… or not, that depends on how you look at it. I'm not so very contend with this story, though it's not as bad as with the last one. Still, I guess I'm only uploading it here because I'm too tired to think straight.

(It's daybreak and the birds are singing in the sky… Maybe my stories would be better, if I started writing them at day… ^^)

Another bird's song

By Kia

Somewhere in the distance a bird was singing in the trees.

The wind carried its voice to the ears of every creature nearby and its song was filled with memories kept and treasured through years and centuries of time, silent and hidden, yet so very present for anyone willing to listen.

Kain wasn't willing to listen. Yet the memories came, unwanted and painful and the bird continued singing and didn't care that he was a god to every living being of this time. A dark god.

The sand crunched beneath his feet as he walked.

It were these times the lord of all vampires and humans of Nosgoth used to remember in his more calm moments; The long days and short nights at the very dawn of the empire, before he had even made his second vampiric son. Those precious times, when he and Raziel were the only two vampire of all Nosgoth. That time was short, a few years only, but there was something about it, that made it come to his mind whenever he let his thoughts wander. He used to welcome those memories once, to close his eyes and embrace them with all his soul.

But those times had long since passed.

And at this very moment he would have given the world if he could only make these images leave his mind.

***

The sun was rising, somewhere behind the far mountains. Kain could see the weak rays of light fall through a small window looking to the east, just far enough for the light to never reach this part of the room.

To his right, huddled between the dark red covers of the large bed, lay Raziel, fast asleep, peaceful and calm and still too much of a fledgling to stand the light of the sun. Without any knowledge of his past and mercifully oblivious of his future. Somewhere just outside the window a bird was singing in the trees.

Something like a smile touched Kain's lips as his eyes calmly rested on the relaxed features of his still so very human offspring, and for just this moment he managed to forget his reasons for creating him. In this moment, in the golden twilight of the early morning he managed to touch that silken black hair so softly that Raziel wasn't woken from his usually light sleep and knew that they shared more that just being the only beings left of their species. In these hours, surrounded by the silence of the still present night something was magical around them, freezing this moment forever in time. And the silence was only passed by the singing of the bird that warped around this moment like a net, to keep it inside its song for eternity.

Kain did not often retreat this early in the day, since there was still so much to be done. But today it was different, and though he was not tired a soft weariness had taken his mind, that in the end had lead him to this place and to this moment where the flow of  time seemed to stand still for just a bit longer. So he leaned back against the wall to watch the darkness fade and listen to the soft sound of Raziel breathing and the song of the bird until the moment passed.

***

Somewhere in the distance a bird was singing in the trees, but the sound was shut out by the thunder of the water below. Yet, the memory remained and it was that memory that made him turn around and look away as he faced the day he knew for a long time to come. And when he spoke, the words that left his mouth where said with the voice of a stranger.

"Cast him in!"

-end-

May 28, 2003