Title: Word of the Day v. FFIV
Author: Garnet Eyes
Archived: fanfiction .net, livejournal .com
Last Updated: 03 Feb 2011
Summary: 19 September 1999 edition.
Rating: K+
Characters/Pairings: Cecil, Kain
Author Notes: confluence, noun;
1. A flowing or coming together; junction.
2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc. meet.
3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage.
Disclaimers: Final Fantasy IV is owned by Square-Enix and I in no way, shape, or form profit off of my writing. This is simply for my own pleasure, and may at any time be removed and/or modified as I see fit.

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He'd always known, always believed in the furthest reaches of his heart, that he would see Kain again. The paladin didn't know where his cherished friend had gone, couldn't predict what he was going through at any given point in time, but he trusted in the dragoon and expected that, one day, they would be together again. One day, Kain would take up the deliberately vacant post of Lord Commander of the Royal Dragoon Guard for Baron's king and queen, and all would be right with the world again. Cecil couldn't say how he knew he was right, or even why he thought it, but he did, and no one was really willing to argue with him about it. Something about sore points and vitriol that the king did not care to hear.

So he was hardly surprised to be reunited with the older male some years later, to have the dragoon back in his life the same as always yet so different as well. It was fate.