Lilac and Ivory

This chapter came to me whilethinking about how a Hero feels.

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Free

Blaze was laying across a sturdy branch. It barely bent under her weight, and even though she disliked heights, she was at a comfortable enough distance from the ground that she didn't feel sick. Below her, also relaxing, was Silver. The hedgehog was turning a blade of grass over and over between his fingers, frowning slightly. He looked up at the sky, which seemed to him a massive artist's pad. The sky, he supposed, was an artist's pad. It pleased the sky to make the stars dust its surface, the moon was a bright crescent, like the hungry artist had taken a bite from the moon. Not only that, but the faintest tinges of red were visible on the horizon, the last of the setting sun. Here, far away from civilization, the friends relaxed in the mossy forest that grew far away from Iblis's destruction.

Blaze let her eyes wander over to the horizon, and watched the largest star she had ever seen dance on the twilight verge. She then looked down at Silver, whose gold eyes were fixed on the grass still.

"What's so interesting about that?" She asked him, rolling over onto her stomach.

"It's just..." Silver sighed, placing down the grass and picking a small white moss flower. "I look at this forest, and I see all of this life. Then I look at what we call home..." He turned his head, levitating off of the ground until he was at eye level with Blaze. He pointed toward the smudge of red, orange, and gray that marked Iblis's domain. "I don't see any beauty over there. I just see what Iblis created." He landed on the branch with her, and the branch barely moved. She sat up, letting her legs dangle off of the branch.

"I can't help but think...if I don't do something...he's going to destroy this too." He clenched his fist, and Blaze watched silently. "I don't know what to do." He admitted.

Poor Silver. Still so naïve. She placed her hand on his, the warmer temperature of her skin bleeding through her gloves.

"But you're not alone. I'm right here. We'll work this out."

Silver smiled at her, then leaped off of the branch and sat down at his usual spot. There he quickly plucked another moss flower and studied it.

"I feel like...I'm in a cage, or a trap. The people expect us to keep Iblis back, but he's moving forward. I know you're with me, but we have to do something..."

Blaze was surprised at how Silver was speaking, her friend never did this before. She landed next to him and took the flower from his fingers.

"Here's what we need to do. We need to find a way..." She set the flower on fire, then let the wind take the silver ashes away. "To set you free."

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Sorry if this chapter is confusing. The cage metaphor thing is what Blaze is talking about at the end.