lassarina: (Seifer: Not Afraid To Die)
Lassarina ([personal profile] lassarina) wrote in [community profile] rose_in_winter2017-10-31 09:28 pm

[Final Fantasy VIII] Undertow

Characters: Seifer
Rating: PG
Contains: Spoilers
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Written for the prompt "silent power"
Betas: N/A
Summary: She need not speak to wield Her power.

Ultimecia rarely speaks. She doesn't need to; She can make Her will known without something as crude as words. He feels it in his bones, a knowledge deeper than the muscle-memory of fighting or the increasingly frayed memories of a house by the beach and other orphans. She wishes, he hears, and he obeys.

Sometimes that power drags him down like an undertow, when he has erred; Her fury lances through him like lightning, binding him in the knowledge of his failure and Her displeasure, carved into his flesh and bones without a single external wound.

He keeps swimming.