Kingdom Hearts: Army Of The Roses

Chapter Five

Bearing pale sand, my palms — rubbed raw and bloody — cupped the damp dirt. Shoveling over my shoulder, sand against sand was the rhythm of my ears. Nought louder than, and nothing quieter than that.

Sore my back became as I stood. A tired breath came to me as I considered the pit I dug.

'Deep enough.' I thought to myself.

Climbing, I crawled from the trench and sat with dangling feet. On one hand I leaned as I looked out to the waters.

Sigh

'Back to it.' I swung my feet before taking a knee. With the uttermost gentile grasp I could hold; I scooped the delicately wrapped boy into my palms. One foot 'fore another, I slid back into the pit before carefully laying Luke down. Nothing more than a kiss I gave to his icy cheek.

"Rest now."

With both hands, I kneaded the sand back into the hallow 'til there was none left.

Jilted; alone, I sat with my arms resting on my knees.

Dourly I watched as black waves folded into a shore.'Til the horizon, strange rocks of black spiraled through a cloudless sky before basing back to the body of ink. Beyond the purview hovered moon of brilliant light; so bright, it painted the beach in a coat of dim fog. A sight I could but find breathtaking.

Where am I?

Again, and again. Once more before another, I watched as a cycle barring no end had formed in the waves. Glanced, I noted the quality of my garb: rugged and worn, they were nearly but scraps on my skin. What I wore was nothing short of old.

How long have I been here?

A question I couldn't answer.

Jumbled my mind became the more I pondered the answer. More than days, the looks of my cloth told me months. Yet, it felt so much longer.

Years?

Could it have been? Time was nought more than a lost concept to me- to this place. Night, day; notions lost here. The moon was my company. Waves aside, it was the only other entity that kept me.

Suddenly I felt lost. Looking to and fro, I- how?

How do I get out of here?

'Maybe I'm not suppose to leave.'

Hell wasn't as awful as he thought. An eternity alone is no prize, but surely it's better than torture by the a devil.

He sighed.

I've deserved this,