Two
She scares me. I haven't told anyone how much she scares me but she does. Those yellow eyes continuously piercing the back of my mind. Those gigantic black wings coming towards me closer and closer. I see her every night, in my dreams. I am standing in my field of gold waiting for Squall to return from wherever he went. I see a figure, thinking it is him I run towards it but it isn't, it never is, it's her. She walks to me; wait no she doesn't walk, she glides. I tell her that she is dead. I scream to her that she is dead and that we, Squall and I, had killed her. She laughs at me with her blood-curdling laugh and she opens her mouth to speak. She tells me that she is not dead, she never will be until I am dead. Then I wake.
Squall watched the beautiful woman lying next to him. He touched her hair and caressed her soft and delicate face. This woman sleeping tenderly beside him was his. His one and only. His true love. She looked so young. She still looked exactly like she had the night of the ball where they had first met. The night where they had danced under the shooting star. He saw beads of sweat running down his wife's angelic face. She was having another nightmare again. It seemed every night she had a nightmare but she never told him about it. She never told Squall. She never told the person who she could trust for eternity. The person who would be with her for eternity, like they promised. He shook his head, kissed his love's soft lips and closed his eyes.
The most powerful GF. That's what she had said. She had junctioned to herself the most powerful GF. She called him Griever. Like my ring. No wait not my ring but Squall's ring. She had Squall's ring.
The cafeteria was busy. Full of SeeD trainees and their trainers. She and Squall had found themselves a nice quiet spot in the corner. There was Zell, queuing up for the cafeteria's famous hotdogs like usual, and Irvine who was also queuing. Selphie talking with Quistis near the entrance. They all looked so much different now yet they all still had the same glint in their eyes and smiles on their lips. They were older and only she, Rinoa, looked the same as she had all those years ago when they had all first met. But that is only because she is a Sorceress. Sorceress' never age.
And her castle. It was right there. By the place that Squall and I had promised. Our flower field. Why there? Why did she place her floating castle there? My ring - I mean Squall's ring. It's still there round my neck on my sliver chain. But she had it.
"You say you won't ever leave me?" Rinoa asked her husband. She looked questioningly up into his dark eyes. "I will be with you forever," he told her and he leaned in to kiss his love's lips. She moved away. She loved him, more than anything, but she needed to know. "But when you die I will still be here." Her voice was shaking. Squall lay his hand gently on her cheek but he did not know what to say. He could not think of anything suitable to say to his angel. What was there to say?
How could she have m-Squall's ring? Why was her castle by our field? I-I don't understand.