Chimerical

By Faronon Star Wolf


#11 – Blur

"I wasn't fast enough."

#12 – Wait

That's not something you want to do, the man said, and she snarled in reply, What would you know about what I do and don't want to do?!

#13 – Change

She had lost the battle with her tears, and she was fighting simply to keep her sobs as quiet as possible—when gentle fingers on her shoulder caused her to look up into Kyon's concerned face.

#14 – Command

He can hear them, sometimes—the walls are not thick enough to block all of the noise when the SOS Brigade gets going—and he sighs, motioning the rest of the Computer Research Society to leave: they wouldn't be able to get anything done, listening to that poor girl wailing as Suzumiya stripped her—again.

#15 – Hold

Just hold me, she whispered as the world fell down around them, and she might have imagined his reply: always.

#16 – Need

Don't you see—all I need is you!

#17 – Vision

Leaning against the wall in the stairwell, Koizumi Itsuki can feel the high and vicious emotions in the clubroom, and he winces before walking resolutely toward the trouble.

#18 – Attention

"Now that I've got your attention," she had purred in her dream, and as she walked to school the next day she wondered if she would ever get that chance in real life.

#19 – Soul

She opened her eyes slowly—her dreams were nothing new, nothing to be commented on—but it hurt, oh, it burned to know that she wasn't the one who he cared for most.

#20 – Picture

She stands on the bow of the boat, feeling his eyes on her back, and tears up the letter he had written and the pictures she had taken—he had mentioned once that he thought he had seen her on the boat when they went to the island, so since he had seen her—she had to be here now.