A/N: well, I'll be honest. I forgot that I had this finished. And then I opened my notebook up to type some stuff that I had been putting off, and there it sat. Of course, since it's been so long since I wrote it, I don't remember anything that I was going to say about it at the time. Such is life.
Its short and I'm not sure how well I conveyed the emotions I was trying for—it seems lacking to me when I go back and re-read. But, as is standard policy, its an interlude, so its as done as it gets. Hope you all like it.
Braska's Interlude
Written Feb. 2007
Published 28 March 2007
Someday, I hope Yuna understands. I hope that she will realize that, even with her in my life, Sin had taken away everything worth living for and that I had to stop it. I hope that she understands that I did it because I love her.
It was the death of her mother that finally sent me out on the pilgrimage, thought I may have gone soon anyway. People say I left with the intent to find a noble way to join my wife in death, but that isn't true.
I did it to make life worth living again, even if I wouldn't be there to see it. I left to give my daughter the kind of life she deserves to have—free of the terrors of Sin.
She cried when we left, and I know that she doesn't understand why I had to go now. But I had to leave while the monster could be defeated in time to let her really live life. I had to go so that she could experience happiness before it was too late, before she would be forever tainted by Spira's unending sorrow.
I left out of love and I will die out of love. I only hope that she understands one day.