Disclaimer: Slayers belongs to someone else than me, Kadokawa Shoten, I believe. This story was also written over a day and is perfectly insane.

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The Sea

by Nadia Dimitria

Chapter 1

Theatre

The night fell even here.

It was all amazing, Zel mused. This window, for example...

He touched the rich, thick, and by the look of it, old glass.

Looking through it, the sea outside looked even wavier.

This island felt so far away, like nothing more was real anymore.

Zelgadiss could enjoy that feeling.

But he was still here.

"Is it to your liking? It's orihalcon-fused."

"..."

"The glass, that is.", he smiled, chuckling lightly.

Maybe his hair swung like usual, the fruitcake! Zelgadiss thought as his chin touched his knees and his hands clenched even harder together.

The windowsill he occupied felt too big, everything here felt wrong, somehow.

Like some kind of fairytale.

They didn't talk about the thing they thought about.

The sound of waves swallowed his breathing.

Why was he here?

He just wanted to go... Not home, because he had no home.

Just away. Away from Amelia, away from Gourry, wherever he might be.

Probably in Sylphiel