Disclaimer: FF 7 doesn't belong to me. Neither do these characters. I just
play with them from time to time. Heeheehee.
Author's Note: You love me, you really love me! *sniffles* New reviews. I do so love them. and, by the way, what's with FFN making epilepsies (you know, those three dots used to signify silence) into one period? It makes me look like I can't write... see, there it goes again!! ARGH!!
Lovely Lucrecia, Liz, Aurora, and Cheez3Bree- you guys are awesome!! Thank you for the kind words!! They make me feel all floaty inside *light, happy music begins to play in the background as cherry blossom petals fall around AT's face* Ah, to be loved.. Hopefully, Aeris and Seph will get that feeling sometime soon, right?? ^_^ Well, I don't know when I'll get to it, so no promises..
And, as a final note, you may have noticed I've put up two chapters today. That's because this chapter is really short. *clears her throat and gets ready for threatening her readers* If I don't get reviews for both chapters, you people will never get two chapters in one day again! Never! Ever! Again!! Just making that clear.
Enjoy this latest chapter!!
Chapter 27:
Unfamiliar Feeling
It was the strangest thing that had ever happened to him. What was this? It was new, and completely original. He felt odd. Almost as if he had transformed into someone else for a short period of time. But that small window gave him a glimpse of an entirely new world. The drab stone room that he had been trapped in had suddenly opened to reveal a drastically different world to him, one which he had whole-heartedly embraced. Yet even before he had a chance to fully explore it, the dark room sucked him back in. He felt imprisoned, and unjustly so.
That glimpse may not have been a good thing. Being stuck in the room had not been depressing. It was all he knew. Everything he had ever experienced was stuck in that room with him. All of his fear, pain, doubt, and confusion. It was all there, surrounding him. Yet he didn't seem to mind. It was normal for him. This was how life should be.
Then, that window appeared. Small enough to be just a glimpse of the outside world, it still held enough power to change everything. It changed everything for him. The color that existed outside- it was amazing! There were objects he didn't have names for, waiting there for him as if he had always been welcome. Yet, only now was he able to see them. Only after that window appeared could he know what was on the other side of that stone wall.
Just as suddenly, the window vanished. Where had it gone? What could he do, now that this otherworldly vision had been taken from him? It seemed too cruel, somehow, that it had ever appeared to him in the first place. Now, he had to accept the fact that the small glimpse he had seen was gone. It would never come back. And, even if it did return, what good would it do him? He would still be stuck here, in this dark room with his uncontrollable emotions surrounding him, cornering him. He tried to get away, but he couldn't. Where could he go? There was nowhere else, but this one room. And, in this one room, there was nothing he could do. All he could do was sit in a corner and wait. Wait for something to happen.
What was he waiting for? It was something which didn't have a name. Some feeling, some idea, some chance, some hope, some vague, abstract notion that he had no words for. It never existed before that window appeared. But now that he had looked through it, he couldn't ignore what it offered. Even when it pained him to know that he was still stuck in here, even when it was easier to just ignore what the window had shown him. he couldn't ignore it, even if he wanted to.
Why didn't he want to? What was it about this indistinct idea that made him desire it so? What was this abstract idea that had him cornered in his once comfortable stone home?
Was this idea. it couldn't be. But somehow, he thought it was. He thought it might be that thing that everyone talked about having, yet no one ever seemed to achieve. Even that girl with the soft hair and friendly smile- it was even beyond her reach.
This unfamiliar feeling. it couldn't be.
.happiness?
Author's Note: You love me, you really love me! *sniffles* New reviews. I do so love them. and, by the way, what's with FFN making epilepsies (you know, those three dots used to signify silence) into one period? It makes me look like I can't write... see, there it goes again!! ARGH!!
Lovely Lucrecia, Liz, Aurora, and Cheez3Bree- you guys are awesome!! Thank you for the kind words!! They make me feel all floaty inside *light, happy music begins to play in the background as cherry blossom petals fall around AT's face* Ah, to be loved.. Hopefully, Aeris and Seph will get that feeling sometime soon, right?? ^_^ Well, I don't know when I'll get to it, so no promises..
And, as a final note, you may have noticed I've put up two chapters today. That's because this chapter is really short. *clears her throat and gets ready for threatening her readers* If I don't get reviews for both chapters, you people will never get two chapters in one day again! Never! Ever! Again!! Just making that clear.
Enjoy this latest chapter!!
Chapter 27:
Unfamiliar Feeling
It was the strangest thing that had ever happened to him. What was this? It was new, and completely original. He felt odd. Almost as if he had transformed into someone else for a short period of time. But that small window gave him a glimpse of an entirely new world. The drab stone room that he had been trapped in had suddenly opened to reveal a drastically different world to him, one which he had whole-heartedly embraced. Yet even before he had a chance to fully explore it, the dark room sucked him back in. He felt imprisoned, and unjustly so.
That glimpse may not have been a good thing. Being stuck in the room had not been depressing. It was all he knew. Everything he had ever experienced was stuck in that room with him. All of his fear, pain, doubt, and confusion. It was all there, surrounding him. Yet he didn't seem to mind. It was normal for him. This was how life should be.
Then, that window appeared. Small enough to be just a glimpse of the outside world, it still held enough power to change everything. It changed everything for him. The color that existed outside- it was amazing! There were objects he didn't have names for, waiting there for him as if he had always been welcome. Yet, only now was he able to see them. Only after that window appeared could he know what was on the other side of that stone wall.
Just as suddenly, the window vanished. Where had it gone? What could he do, now that this otherworldly vision had been taken from him? It seemed too cruel, somehow, that it had ever appeared to him in the first place. Now, he had to accept the fact that the small glimpse he had seen was gone. It would never come back. And, even if it did return, what good would it do him? He would still be stuck here, in this dark room with his uncontrollable emotions surrounding him, cornering him. He tried to get away, but he couldn't. Where could he go? There was nowhere else, but this one room. And, in this one room, there was nothing he could do. All he could do was sit in a corner and wait. Wait for something to happen.
What was he waiting for? It was something which didn't have a name. Some feeling, some idea, some chance, some hope, some vague, abstract notion that he had no words for. It never existed before that window appeared. But now that he had looked through it, he couldn't ignore what it offered. Even when it pained him to know that he was still stuck in here, even when it was easier to just ignore what the window had shown him. he couldn't ignore it, even if he wanted to.
Why didn't he want to? What was it about this indistinct idea that made him desire it so? What was this abstract idea that had him cornered in his once comfortable stone home?
Was this idea. it couldn't be. But somehow, he thought it was. He thought it might be that thing that everyone talked about having, yet no one ever seemed to achieve. Even that girl with the soft hair and friendly smile- it was even beyond her reach.
This unfamiliar feeling. it couldn't be.
.happiness?