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Date Posted: 22:57:20 12/28/03 Sun
Author: nothingness
Subject: ...

She cried.

Shamelessly, quietly, tears slowly forming glittering diamonds on her eyelashes before slipping down her cheeks. She sat cross-legged, hung her head, and let the tears drip onto her arms, hands in her lap.

There was no pain inside her... no despair, no angst, no cause for the tears. But as a wise man once said... If there is no cause for your tears, then why are you crying?

She was glad that she didn't have to touch the pain to express it. She knew why she cried, and she had thought she'd avoided the downfall. But they were apart again, and her only comfort was a staunch red flank at her back, a powerful tail around her waist, and a golden tailblade pressed flat against her hip.

She talked blindly, running on automatic as silent tears made their way downwards, smiling and laughing all in her head, in some part of her mind that felt no emotion. The one with whom she spoke had no clue, and she was painfully reminded of the differences between this one and el'lai. This one was not perceptive. This one could not hear the tears behind the laughter.

There was nothing to be done, and no great wave of emotion to be sobbed out. One by one, tears trickled down, tiny raindrops in an empty sea.

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