Twelve Days of Christmas

by Kiaran Dryaalis

Title should actually be Twelve Days until Christmas, but then it wouldn't make sense to me. It's twelve days until Christmas and Subaru finds an anonymous gift by his front door. As the days go by, he gets more gifts. But who's sending them?

9. December 22

December 22, 1997

I returned home to find another box at my door. I took it inside, went next door to retrieve Yûki, and brought the kitten home. She snuggled up on the couch and watched me remove the candy cane and open the box I had received. It was rather large and a lot of Styrofoam was inside. I rummaged around inside and found nine books, all of them poetry; Dickinson, Frost, Hemmingway …all masters.

Again, my thoughts went to Nokoru, a man who loved poetry. But I still could not shake the feeling that it was Seishirou-san who sent these gifts.

Author's Note: I was thinking about the Subaru in the RPG I'm in when I thought about poetry as another gift. Credit to my Subaru. Because I wouldn't have thought about it had I not joined the RPG.