Author's note: This Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden challenge belongs to WishingDreamer5.
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The Radiance in the Hollow Abyss
02. Flowers
"Do not leave my side too far this time, my dear." A fairly old woman – whose wrinkled face was lit with gentleness – told a red-haired child. The latter obediently nodded before happily drifting off towards the beautiful garden as she sing sung. She then stopped in her tracks and smiled in awe of all this beauty facing her and stooped to pick some flowers.
The brownish-red strands of her hair seemed lighter below the radiant sun. Her eyes were beautifully wide and clear as water. They say eyes mirror the soul and into hers, one could see the brightest soul and admire the purest of hearts.
"A pure heart… huh?" A male voice muttered in his breath before laughing in a sinister way. His voice was icy, cruel and almost inhuman, devoid of any feelings whatsoever. Hidden from view, he was watching the scene from afar, his golden eyes narrowed from boastful and arrogant pity – if he could feel any, looking down on the pathetic scene. His appearance was as dark as his heart. His deathly pale skin was an interesting contrast to his raven-black spiky hair and organic-looking body dark suit on which bloody red lines could be seen. The flowers, at his feet, had desperately faded and died in a silent and hopeless cry. It was the price to pay when you embodied emptiness and were the negativity that opposed life itself. As if it was not enough, he crushed them even more with his feet as he ruthlessly smirked at the sight of these once-beautiful fallen things. He chuckled once again as he put his dark-glassed helmet on, masked he felt even more powerful.
But he needed to leave, that little girl's light was too much for him to handle.
"Disgusting," he spat in a murderous hiss as he disappeared through a dark portal.