"Lancer"
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September 5
Fallarbor Town, Hoenn
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paralegal / special agent
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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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Gunner Graves
THE BORDER: GGCR
POSTED ON Feb 23, 2023 13:31:35 GMT
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Darkness bled away to light.[break][break]
Gunner blinked. He floated amidst otherworldly clouds, an enormous sun bearing down with the full weight of its searing heat. He could make out distant, rocky shapes wreathed by the clouds. At first, he thought they were mountain peaks, but a shift of the wind revealed them to be the floating islands of the Border.[break][break]
A sickening realization dawned on him. He glanced down. Far below, Gideon cradled his charred corpse.[break][break]
"No," Gunner wanted to shout, but it came out as a hoarse whisper instead.[break][break]
Then another voice spoke. It was a voice he only heard in his dreams, though the passing of time had caused its exact pitch and timbre to grow indistinct in his memory.[break][break]
"Gunner? What are you doing here, silly?"[break][break]
The voice hurt. The playfulness hurt. If Gunner had tears to weep, he would have turned toward the speaker sobbing. Instead, he gazed upon her with a wretched expression, agonized, mournful.[break][break]
Sayori floated beside him, her spectral form whipping on a whimsical breeze like the skirts of the sundress she loved to wear.[break][break]
He had waited for a moment like this for nearly six years โ for the chance to speak with her. To lay his heart bare one last time. To wrap her in his arms and kiss her hair that smelled of lilacs.[break][break]
To apologize.[break][break]
But as he opened his mouth to speak the words, she reached out and took his hand in hers. Their fingers were translucent, their bodies ephemeral. "It's okay," she said, in the tone she'd always used when they'd shared private moments. "You don't have to feel guilty anymore. I'm not mad at you, Gunner. There is nothing for me to forgive."[break][break]
In the end, he'd fallen for her compassion, and that same tenderness now lifted his burden. Sweet relief washed through him, and he felt lighter, like the clouds themselves that meandered past.[break][break]
So instead, he said, "Thank you," and tried his best to smile.[break][break]
Sayori smiled back. "That's more like it." Then she glanced down, and Gunner watched as Caleb's Lapras floated over to heal his body. "You should go back."[break][break]
Gunner frowned, confused. "How? Is that even possible?"[break][break]
"Anything is possible here where the worlds of the living and dead have overlapped. Just close your eyes and focus."[break][break]
He followed her instructions, shutting his eyes and imagining himself waking up in his body. Her sweet voice guided him.[break][break]
"Imagine your family, your friends, your work. Imagine being alive with them. Focus on breathing, moving your fingers, your limbs."[break][break]
Slowly at first, then more rapidly, Sayori's voice became fainter until it was a whisper he found himself straining to hear.[break][break]
"Live, Gunner. Not for me, but for yourself."[break][break]
Air rushed into his lungs as the waters of Lapras' LIFE DEW fell gently upon his face. Gunner's eyes snapped open. An agony like a thousand knives cutting into his flesh steadily faded away as his body healed from the trauma of being burnt alive.[break][break]
When Gunner spoke, it was with a mouth and tongue and teeth that were solid, real. Whole.[break][break]
"Gideon?"
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