Drowning

“I’ve read this story before,” Rinoa thought, her mind dizzy from the lack of oxygen.

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Rings

Edea’s smiling up at me and my heart skips a beat.

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Perceptions

“What’s this?”
Odine wondered at how narrow the difference was between babysitting and giving the president a tour. He thanked Hyne that the hour was over.
Laguna stopped at Odine’s desk and doodled over his pad for a minute. When he left, the pad was full of scribbled suggestions illustrated with unhappy faces and stick-figure monsters. Frowning, [...]

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Interact

Discipling Seifer was easy. He seemed to invite it, daring the Headmaster to find a punishment that would hurt him.
Squall was different. He was respectful and nodded but never interacted. The look in his eye never changed. Cid knew he wasn’t getting through that wall, that the punishment didn’t mean anything more to Squall than [...]

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Change

The argument was about something silly, whether if the children were old enough to learn a dinner fork from a salad fork.
“I still don’t know the difference between a dinner fork and a salad fork. I just wait for you to elbow me when I use the wrong one,” I said, and Edea sighed so [...]

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Protected: Ellone 2: Voyeur

Sometimes she wondered if Squall suspected.

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Protected: Ellone 3: Control Freak

There was a smile on Rinoa’s lips the next time Ellone visited the Garden.

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Ellone 4: Company

Rinoa was waiting alone when Ellone arrived this time, her hands trembling slightly.

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Protected: Ellone 1: Family

This was the one she refused to talk about.

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Witches’ Creed

I dreamed she came to me
and I dreamed she sang

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