A/N: Written for the Pokemon Sun/Moon Trial, prologue task 4, prompt: beginning


Tales in a Kifu
9. Intent to Kill

The top's too fine
and lonely; he can wait
like the swaying branches
till the tree beneath him
falls
or he can create the fire
from the base
and watch it climb
to him…

Yes, he'll create his own flame.
It's the only way he'll be satisfied
instead of succumbing
to age and time.