Comms and Other Long FE Oneshots

Dark Cyclone

*Part of something I call the Takumi Timeline. Conquest up until Izumo, and then stuff happens. All royal siblings survive.*

Tired.

Dark.

All that I know and all that I care to,

She left me some rice,

And that warms the cold,

But the ache is still there

And the darkness that swallows the sounds

That would bring comfort

If I could truly hear.

"Milord!"

"Milord!"

I hear them this time,

Pounding worry in every heartbeat.

"Nii-san!"

"Nii-san!"

They want to see me.

I want to see them.

I don't want them hurt.

I don't know who I'll hurt.

"Milord!"

"Milord!"

My retainers again.

The only two

Who never betrayed me

For the sake of a long-lost brother.

I want him hurt.

I want him gone.

I want my mother back.

I'm scared.

Thoughts are a vicious cyclone,

Tearing and biting,

Anger and fear,

Terror at what I've become.

I can't let them in.

We both know betrayal.

We both know the hurt

How it twists and distorts

And ruins the mind.

Perhaps even without his decay

I would have ended up like this.

Tearing and biting,

Anger and fear,

Terror at what I've become,

Rage toward my brother,

The family he chose,

Over me,

Over us,

I've seen the path he would have fulfilled.

"My son."

"My son."

My birth mother died

One night in her sleep.

Another replaced her almost immediately.

I grew to love her as much as the first.

When her child was taken,

I cried with her.

When she welcomed another,