"Rainbow Dreams"
Summary: "With just her and Huey, she felt content to just fly and watch all the colors of the sky pass beyond her."
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Once upon a time they dreamed together...
Three sisters dreaming, of pale wings cutting paths through rainbows that spanned between the clouds. Three little girls yearning for freedom from the world below.
They never saw rainbows in Ilia, not like those that they dreamed...
Rain fell less than frequently during the handful of summer days that their homeland saw each year. Farmers toiled to haul water to the crops more often than the clouds sated the thirst of the land. But that was the way that life had always been in the mountainous country.
The rainbows that Florina could recall came from the well loved books that her sisters shared with her. The illustrations were faded from having passed through many hands, the pages torn here and there, but she could still make out the glorious array of colors that proclaimed a rainbow, a promise of better times.
In the books, they only stared up at the sky in wonder - after all, no one could touch a rainbow.
But if they had wings...
Farina fell first. She found her wings, but another color caught her attention; she chased after a different legend - the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. She left the books and her homeland behind her to vanish into the sky.
Not long after, Fiora gave up the chase. She no longer had time to devote to the dreams of youth; responsibility sat heavily on her shoulders, dragging her down to the very earth that she sought to avoid. Florina watched her sister wilt from the pressure of reality, unable to take the time to enjoy the brief stints of freedom that she had.
She was all alone now...
Florina knew that she really wasn't really alone - Hector waited for her down below on the 'nice safe dirt' - but up in the sky, it was just her and Huey. The world receded into a myriad of colors as the sun passed through its cycles, tingeing the clouds to varying shades and hues. And when it happened to rain...
Well, Florina had always dreamed of chasing the rainbow...
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AN: Originally conceived to answer the eighth challenge at LJ's FE_Contest. The second entry won out, but this little work is full of enough fluffy goodness to earn a place here in "Life in a Box". Enjoy!
(Yes, I'm still working on the other forementioned tales. Yes, this is just a convenient filler between. Yes, I am fond of all my loyal readers and especially my loyal reviewers.)