Title:
Strain
Rating: PG
Genre:
General
Squicks: None except this being the thoughts of an inanimate object…
Couple: Sess + Swords (Tenseiga and Toukijin)
Theme:
#23 - karma
Words: 166
Summary: A sword's karma, all determined through service to the master.
Notes: I can't believe I gave a samurai-like compulsion to a sword….
It should have seen it coming. Something that lived in rage could only go out in rage. That was how existences worked.
But it seemed that Toukijin's karma was straining upwards. It at least got to perish in the service of its master, despite the circumstances.
Tenseiga could only wish for such a chance. Yet, as it struggled against that sheer force that engulfed his master, as it thrust out and hoped it was enough, it realized that perhaps it would never get the chance.
Perhaps its karma was to forever remain unrecognized. To forever be the shadowed lackey that followed in silence.
It realized this but --as its master's strained breath resonated through the dark, as his pain cried out to its inner core and Tenseiga pushed harder-- it could feel no regret.
It may be unacknowledged, it may be scorned, it maybe even be thought useless. But it was still going to save its master's life.
And perhaps that was all it needed.