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: #11 - Magic
Title: Fireworks
Author: Ziggimaguagua
Word count: 100
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"Now! Lookit, lookit!"
"It's gonna-"
"Wooow!"
"It's magic!"
He chuckles as he watches the smaller kids marvel at the sputtering fireworks and, though he still thinks they are kind of cool, he's big enough to know that fireworks are made of gunpowder and different kinds of metal that burns with different colours and, though cool, that's hardly magic.
He thinks of Inu no nii-chan, of blue, sparkling light swallowing his sister and spewing her back out, of the cursed Noh-mask and the magical sword, and he smiles at the kids and shakes his head. If only they knew...