AN: Hard to believe we're on week 21 of these, huh? Time sure flies...
Away (Fie)
She always wonders what life would be like if Zephyr had never disbanded.
Sometimes it's the big things – how the corps would have evolved over time, what sort of jobs her dad would have gradually let her handle – but on occasion it's the small things too.
Would she have always looked up to Xeno and Leo the way she used to? Or would she have prickled and grown tired of the constant big brother routine, knowing full well that she'd have had to make her own way eventually?
She doesn't know the answer, and she never will.
It stings, sometimes.
Wildfire (McBurn)
"So let's knock it off with the tired one-liners and get down to business. You can do all the talking you want after."
Truth be told, he's more curious than anything else.
These kids have come a hell of a long way – the one taking point especially – but he's not yet sure if they can make him try, make him blaze the way he wants to. He knows he technically has a job to do, but that can wait. It can all wait.
The inferno coiled within him pulses with anticipation, ready and eager to run wild at long last.
Music (Emma, Elliot)
"Try and visualize, Elliot," Emma advises, watching as he shut his eyes and focused. "Concentrate on an image, and use that to influence and command the quartz. The Hexen…"
She was still speaking. Elliot couldn't hear.
"Time to begin!"
He pictures sitting down at an ornate organ as the world shatters around him, the energy within his ARCUS beating in time with his heart as he starts to play.
"Pure breath of the Goddess, reside in my music and heal my friends! Finale!"
His eyes open to bursts of rejuvenating light raining down, Emma's proud cheer echoing all the while.