Title: The Way the World Ends
Rating: K
Characters: Riku, Sora
Summary: "This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Notes: For the theme 'fear' at the Keyblade LJ community.
He watches the darkness eat them up from both sides, and he stares and blinks against it, helpless, not knowing what to do. He feels guilty and scared and panicked all of the sudden, and he fears the dark, fears what's going to happen to them and what might come after this.
He reaches forward, offering him his hand. If they're together, he knows that he won't be afraid.
Their hands don't touch, and the darkness suffocates him, and he can only think of one thing in all of the confusion:
This is the way the world ends, isn't it?
