Light Nevermore
Author: foxmagic
Disclaimer: I don't own.
It was the rain that connected Earth to Heaven. Falling as a sheet of refined glass, each droplet soothed the senses so wholly. So very dignified as one was, it was unheard of to be caught unawares in such a trivial manner. Even so…there was something about the presence nearby that drew him to the forest that day. Coincidental? Perhaps. Indeed it was only happen-stance that caused his feet to take the latter path, following the river now over-run.
Maybe it wasn't so odd when he heard a melodious voice waft passed tree and bush. No, it was only too incidental. And maybe it couldn't be perceived as strange when movement ceased around him, save that of simple girl, spinning delightedly in the rain.
And when his golden eyes laid to rest on her soaked form, it was neither out of awe, nor wonder, but mere curiosity. To watch such a fragile thing, nearly bare skinned and fancy free…it was nothing short of a miracle. So he stayed his hand, even as it rest so evenly on the hilt of his sword. No, he couldn't attack. It would only serve to tear the moonlit night in two. And that he could never do.
So whether folly or fact, it was fate that led the gaze of a wandering demon her way. No words, no stoic ruse…only the rain, and the moon, and them.
Black hair mingled with the shadows of forest and waning light. Her gentle song was drowned out softly by the brewing storm, only to be occasionally replaced by a chorus of thunder.
She laughed.
He hesitated.
Neither moved for a brief space in time. Neither breathed for just that one moment. And when the sun readied itself for the new day, neither would take notice.
That night, she danced for him.
;-Fin-;