Penname: Demented Bunny
Original or Derivative: Derivative - Vampire Knight
Rating/warning(s)/note(s):M - For my own enjoyment.
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Prompt: Palm Tree
On the outskirts of the Night School there was a wide ring of trees, a small forest.
Kaname often wandered through these woods, admiring the birch and ash and oak trees.
But Kaname always returned to one tree, in a clearing near the brook, the trees surrounded the clearing in a perfect circle, only one tree breaking the monotonous pattern.
A single palm tree stood in the centre of the clearing, not very tall but firm and withstanding. The lone palm tree in the entire forest.
Kaname had more then once compared himself to this same tree, strong and wilful but alone. Something that by all rights shouldn't even have been there.
Kaname often found himself standing before that tree, as though drawn to it, though somehow it's appearance always disheartened him, a lone tree for who knows how many years in the past and possibly in the future.
But one day he visited that tree and for once it didn't dishearten him, instead it lit a flame of hope in his chest, because he found that close to the grown palm tree was a young sapling blooming, a palm tree in the centre to stand strong with the first, no longer the lone palm tree in the forest.