Title: Comparing Life to Chocolate
Spotlight On: Yuui & Fai
Word Count: 367
Summary: Fai's final moments of his life. His hopes for his twin Yuui and his last metaphor. "Chocolate, something I only vaguely remembered"
I looked and I listened. The first flesh I'd seen besides Yuui and the mountain of dead flesh he climbed to reach me. The first voice I'd heard in who-knows-how-long besides Yuui's cries.
"Either you or your brother may leave here alive." Nine words so bittersweet, promising freedom for one of us, and death for the other.
Even if I was as gentle and sweet as Yuui said I was was-many eons ago, before his plunge into that despicable hellhole and my ascent to this cold gray tower-I knew what I would chose. Bitter, always bitter, so dear Yuui may taste the sweet. But comparing our lives to chocolate, something I only vaguely remembered, wouldn't save Yuui.
"He's going to choose you to save."
"Let…him," I began, my voice cracking after long disuse.
"Live."
Such a small word, only four letters, yet it held so much promise. With it, my twin could be somewhere besides this horrible abyss where all traitors were thrown. Without it, I would not be there to see that, as my body would be as cold as the weather.
Of course I was sad that my own flame was to be extinguished in this dismal tower, but I was elated that my other half could know something better.
My other half: perfect words to describe Yuui. I loved him more than anything, more than myself. To struggle to reach down to him and escape was what kept me going in this gray prison. In this cold world of ice an snow that was Valeria, only Yuui provided any warmth.
There were two things that saddened me: our situation, and being separated from him.
Honestly, I believed that we were one soul split into two identical bodies. But I would sacrifice anything, even my own life, for my twin.
The man in the portal knew I'd made my decision.
I wish I could say my last thoughts were of Yuui. They almost were. But as I let out my last breath so that the only one I loved could continue to do so, I fleetingly wondered 'What will death feel like?'
Fai was living in a tall stone tower. Fai died in that same stone tower.