A/N: For the 100_tables challenge on lj: using the 5 prompt table one: nothing's real.
And I Call the Sea to Swallow Me Whole
Prompt #004: Illusion
The world was there. Right there and yet he could not reach. It was not through lack of trying; his arms stretched towards the swirling mass of colours on the horizon and the shapes he could see vanishing into it, but to no avail. His feet remained firmly on the ground; the light refused to reach out to him, swallow him –
Like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, he could see it but not touch. Like an illusion, except it was there, and real, and everything they – he and Hiroki – had ever hoped for lived within that rainbow.
He shouted up to the sky, to take him too.
That wasn't an illusion. Wasn't a dream. It was reality. His reality. Their reality. But it was out of their reached.
He screamed in frustration, and anguish. Hiroki crumbled in his hands.