A note passed

[azur]

In Suzail Hanako walks up to Rimieh and offers him a gift, a silken pouch inside which is a flawed red tears gem and a parchment with a poem written upon it. She tells him it is a gift, for remembrance. She then walks away as he takes out and reads the poem, several times.

The Shattered Gem

Smashed and cracked, splintered apart,
A broken mind,
A shattered heart.

Love, hate, fear and grief,
Of life long-lived,
Yet all too brief.

Lust, anger, intense pain,
Sundered apart,
A naked shame.

Joy and sorrow, loathing self,
Emotions scattered,
Nothing felt.

A tear is shed upon the floor,
For once was whole,
Is whole no more.

Pieces taken, pieces lost,
Heart of fire,
Soul of frost.

All is gone........

All is lost.

H.

[jujumojo]

He did not touch the gift with his bare hands, but donned gloves before accepting the silk pouch from Hanako in Suzail. She was perhaps the single person whom he did not care about giving the satisfaction of seeing him so wary in her presence.

"For rememberence of times past..."

Dark green eyes scanned through the words of the poem three times. And when finished, he chuckled quietly in disbelief, giving Hanako a strange look where she sat across the square before putting the gift away and removing his gloves.

It had been many months since she had given him words of more significance than idle small talk, but oh yes, he remembered indeed.

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