Written for the LJ-community 30 shards.
Character(s): Souta
Summary: Bits and pieces of a forgotten character's struggle to accept his sister's life and death.
Shard: #18 - Gift
Title: Solemn
Author: Ziggimaguagua
Word count: 100

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His classmates are playing samurai.

They have stick swords and they run and jump and cry out orders at each other and you're dead! someone cries, and Souta watches.

"What a solemn little boy," a teacher says, smiling. "Go play with the others, sweetie." But he doesn't want to.

He saw a monster once. It was made of humans and it was cut open with a sword, and it wasn't a game at all, and now he doesn't like killing anything, even if they're only playing.

Life's a gift, he's decided, and he can't take it lightly anymore.