11. Applied Solipsism

Fandoms: xxxHolic, Card Captor Sakura;

Characters: Watanuki Kimihiro, Yue;

Notes/Warnings: Apology time again, Vicks.

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This is the ghost story Watanuki never told.

High summer, and damp hot air shuddered his skin. A yellow harvest moon glowered through the tangled branches of the trees he ran through. He was eight, and it wasn't fair that the monster hunting him was pretty.

The long-haired angel slipped through the trees as if it were only air; it ignored salt and slipped past the temple wards Watanuki scattered, its pale face stern and intent.

Watanuki seized the last defense he had: "You don't exist!" he told the angel.

And, in one moment of horrified realisation, it didn't.

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(100 words)

Eh, they both seem to dance the Existential Anxiety Tango, you know?