4 days ago
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Probably be a good idea to read the header and the sentence to follow.
Tomorrow is going to be work filled D:.
I love you guys, sleep tight c:!
Rikku stopped, listening to her cousin’s concerns with a level of patience that she only seemed to possess with the summoner. The blonde hadn’t even thought to think of replacing memories, and tilted her head at the brunette’s question. Was it? Rikku didn’t think so. That was then, and this was now. Two totally different times…and different experiences, in her opinion.
“Hmm…” Rikku, came back toward Yuna, hands gently grasping her forearms in a comforting gesture, “I don’t think so…we may be in the same places, but this is different. We’re going on this for ourselves, without the summoner stuff and…that was the past, you know?”
A smile came up on her face, squeezing her cousin’s arms as she tried to reassure her. “We’re making new memories, not getting rid of the old ones.”
She then jumped back up the stairs, energy back in gear. “So, ready?! I bet we could make a record time for this!”
If entering the temple had been a chock full of Deja Vu, then Rikku was completely unprepared for going through the Cloister of Trials. The placing of spheres, the solving puzzles and opening doors….it was all familiar. The two must have been in there for what seemed like close to almost an hour just solving the puzzle, Rikku even finding some gil in a secret sphere door. And then, they got to the entrance of the chamber.
Her footsteps echoed against the ancient walls, the eerie silence enveloping them like a shroud as they finally walked through the last door of the trials. This would be where everyone would wait for Yuna to come out after praying to the Fayth. The most sacred part of the temple, and the feeling was almost suffocating. Or, maybe Rikku just didn’t like being under all this stone and not out in the fresh air.
“So..” Rikku’s voice seemed much louder in the quiet space, “Are you gonna pray to…Valefor?”
Her mind went back to the bird-like aeon, the first one Yuna received as a summoner..it was a pretty creature, for sure, but to also think that it had once been a person…Fayth were a strange concept if you thought about it too hard. Sometimes she wasn’t sure if she even understood it all correctly.
“Right.”
That and a nod were all Yuna could give in response to her anxious friend before she made her way up the cold stairway that would lead to a collection of dark walls covered in empty veins. To capture new memories by embarking on a new journey would only lengthen the collection the dainty brunette already held. It wouldn’t be the quest that was the same, but simply the course that would be taken. In fact, thinking that her old memories could be replaced so easily by a road that would be so different. .
It’s silly, she affirmed to herself as she placed a first sphere in a slot, causing one of hollow lines in the walls to light up.
Sphere by sphere, she and Rikku completed each section of the cloister of trials before entering a room that was all too familiar. The area everyone had always waited for her in. .
It’s strange to be back in here, she told herself, lifting a hand to her chest as she gazed upon the high ceilings. I guess. . I never thought I would be standing in it again.
As her bi-coloured optical hues took in a dark and haunting statue figure, Yuna frowned gently. On he first journey, she had found so much comfort in these buildings, so much faith in them. Since she’d found out about the contradictions of Yevon, the lies and betrayal, the area seemed so. .
“Ominous,” she stated allowed. “It’s all so ominous.”
A quick glance to her cousin proved that the Al Bhed girl must have thought so, too. She seemed rather enticed by it all, as well. . Though, after a moment, she spoke in the same chipper and curious tone she always held.
“So.. Are you gonna pray to…Valefor?”
“I suppose I should,” Yuna answered as she allowed her appendage to drop to her side. “Do you mind waiting?”
She had been sure the blonde wouldn’t, and soon found herself performing a ritual that seemed all too groggy to her. Hours passed as she called out to the very first fayth who had reached out to her until she finally felt another energy reaching back. As the bond was created through the temple once more, the brunette smiled and embraced the spirit beginning to engulf her.
It feels so right. .
And finally, it was over. Opening her eyes, she stood and attempted to make her way to the exit of the chamber. It proved to be a difficult task, surprisingly, and Yuna found herself leaning against the wall.
“Rikku,” she murmured as she stumbled out. “I thought it would have been easier a second time, but. . “
Tiredly, the summoner lifted her head.
“It seems I was wrong.”
She smiled. Getting out of there would be a new obstacle entirely.
(Source: justawhistleaway)
It makes them taste FABULOUS.
I’m sorry, but I’ve never interacted with an anonymous grey face before.
It’s every Wednesday and goes for six weeks. Apparently, at the end, I get some sort of certificate or something and it looks good on resumes? I dunno.
BUT. It’s super cool because there’s about five or six kids (sixteen - nineteen) and three adults; we watch this movie some Harvard professor put together, then we stop it and discuss it. It’s neat! I just wish the people running it had a little more insight to the questions I ask -_____-
It’s just super cool ‘cause you get to discuss your life and and such and I get to know a little bit of all of these people, ya know?
Downfall to it is that it makes me miss my old Psych teacher :’[ !
Otherwise, it’s awesome.
Anyhoo, I’m off to do replies. I know I owe a lot, but I’m going to start with the ones who I’ve neglected the most. Rikki and Terra ;]!
Kay, if you wanna RP, message me. Otherwise, I’m off to reply to stuff before I embark on essay stuff :3!
