Title: Sakura
Characters: Marlucia and Larxene
Echoes
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You know, Riku has changed.
What do you mean?
Well...
You okay?
Sora, let's take the raft and go-just the two of us!
Huh?
Just kidding.
What's gotten into you? You're the one that's changed, Kairi.
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She wrinkles her nose at the pink flower-petals.
"Cherry-blossoms," she says. Unnecessarily. They are scattered over the spare, white table--white as anything else in the castle--and the slender branch rests in a graceful glass vase, blooming over with sakura.
He answers,
"Cherry-blossoms represent the ephemeral nature of life. It's beauty--lasts only a moment. Makes you think of something, doesn't it?"
She shakes her head.
"Nope." Hooks her hands behind her back as she walks closer to the table to examine the flowers.
"Nothing at all?" he asks.
"Nothing," she affirms, and brushes her long blonde hair back behind her shoulders.
Thinking it strange that her companion would have ever taken such an interest in flora, but she holds her own council on such matters.
"So, the plan," she says, instead.
"Yes. What about it?"
"We'll start it. The two of us."
He nods
and she picks up a petal, holding the delicate flower-fragment a moment before allowing it to flutter slowly back down onto the tabletop.
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Sora, don't ever change.
Huh?
(She smiles at his innocence, before turning her gaze towards the horizon)
I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great.