Title: In the Eye of the Beholder
Author: Lucidscreamer
Fandom: Yugioh
Disclaimer: Yugioh is the creation of Kazuki Takahashi.
The Eye is an epiphany in gold and red-hot agony, throbbing in time to the frantic, kettledrum beat of his heart. Shadows seethe around him, engulf him in purple and black, eager to feast. He can feel himself slipping away, feeding them all he is. He knows, now, that oblivion is the price of hubris, as surely as if Ammit were devouring his heart.
And, then, she is there. Cecelia -- ephemeral as lost hope, shining like redemption. He lays his soul at her feet; gifts his sanity to the Shadows.
He'll risk the world, just to see her again.