Jumeaux

by StarWolf

9/11/2005

Title: Jumeaux
Author: StarWolf (elendraug at yahoo dot com)
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX
Rating: G
Genre: General
Pairing: N/A
Warnings: Strangeness.
Disclaimer: Square's, not mine.
Distribution: Don't archive it, please.
Summary: Lights from pages; paper-thin thing.
Author's Notes: For Zarla. Summary from Massive Attack's "Butterfly Caught."


( back and forth, around again, trade places; summon skyfire. )

"Do this, we must."

"We must do this."

"We shouldn't hurt her."

"Hurt her, we should not."

( forth and back, again around, place trading; ceiling inverts. )

"Know who we are, do we?"

"We do not know who we are."

"Ask him why, maybe we could."

"Maybe we could ask him why."

( turn on heels, footsteps failing, noisemaking; reinvent logic. )

"She'll try to stop us."

"Try to stop us, she will."

"We must flee quickly."

"Quickly, flee must we."

( heels turning, failing footsteps, making noise; defy existence. )

"I don't want to leave Alexandria."

"Use that word, we cannot!"

"Then depart we shall."

"We shall depart, then."

( open eyes, close mind, extract the intangible; steal the sun. )

"We are not twins."

"Twins we are not."

"We are no one."

"No one are we."

( close eyes, open mind, expel the inevitable; fade out. )