Twelfth ★ [Video | Filtered from Aqua]

[limitless_land]

[...A feed during the attack? Seriously? There's only a brief glimpse of gold eyes beneath a hood before the SFC is tilted so only one of the kraken's tentacles can be seen. It takes five seconds before a deep, almost blank voice filters through the darkness.]

What do you do when you've been lost to despair. [A pause as disks of light(?) are tossed at it from behind the speaker.] What is it that you do when you lose sight of the hope you'd kept alive until now and realize that you don't have what it takes to protect others by your own power?

[He's silent for a long while, seemingly focused on dodging the retaliatory actions of the attacked appendage... until a black hand suddenly shoots electric shocks of the same white and pale blue energy at a now writhing mass of flesh.]

Tell me... What does one do with oneself then-?!

[Click.]

Comments

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

My name is Jacob, and I am the guardian of a place very much like this one. And I am here to help. Knowing about people is what I do.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

A guardian... [That could mean so many things in his world, like the being that just moved ahead of him to block an attack from the front. He just doesn't know what to think about it.]

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

Yes. And I try to show people the right path.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

...Isn't it for them to decide if the path's right or wrong?

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

Of course. I offer them a choice. I merely guide them. I don't make decisions for them.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Now why does this sound familiar...

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

How so?

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Must not chuckle must not chuckle must not accidentally give someone else + self nightmares for a week...]

Nothing. Just an old memory.

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

Old memories? I see. From your life back home?

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

If you can call it that.

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

A life is a life, Riku. What you experienced was real. Your friends are real. And this is real.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

Maybe. [If they can even consider me their friend when I look like this...] Memories are a fickle thing.

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

Memories can lie, I know. But the friends you trust the most...the bond you have with them doesn't lie. It never goes away.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

I hope you're right.

[voice | private]

[nos-servabit.livejournal.com]

I am right.

You must believe in yourself, Riku, even when all hope is lost.

[voice | private]

[limitless-land.livejournal.com]

[Heh. What is there to believe in him aside from the light his friends still brought out.]

... I'll try.