Maiko Month Prompt 2: Injustice
Chapter 11: Injustice
He doesn't think it fair that she hides her smiles and deprives the world of her breathy laugh.
And sometimes, he wonders if she does it out of selfishness, stealing the warmth from the air, and the sun from its rightful place in the sky just to keep it all for her own.
In truth, it's more rewarding this way. To see the sun break through clouds of gray after what seems like an eternity makes its light that much brighter, and basking in its warmth all the more pleasant. To know that it was he who brought upon this spell of fair weather only makes the skies clearer and the flowers more vibrant.
It's under these blue skies that he understands why she wants to lock this utopia away –he wants it for his own too, but for different reasons than she. She paints gray clouds to hide behind, so afraid that she'll have no idea how to live under the sun, while he covets it all for himself.
But he's soon to realize his own avarice. He's quick to remember that everyone deserves their own day under the sun. And so he works to coax a smile from her lips, because when her laughter shatters gray silence, she breaks into a grin, her eyes disappearing at the very same moment the sun emerges from behind shadowy clouds. He works to make the sun shine a bit longer, because the world could use more warmth and light.
To hide away the sun would be to deny the world life.
And what an injustice that would be.