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wintersday) wrote2021-05-23 07:00 pm
wintersday) wrote2021-05-23 07:00 pm
Fic: Pitiable Creatures
Title: Pitiable Creatures
Fandom: Chrono Trigger
Major Characters/Pairings: Magus & Alfador
Wordcount: 200 words
Rating: PG
POV: Third person
Summary: Even a dark magician is no match for a determined cat.
Notes: Originally written as a giftfic for The_Exile on AO3.
The Kingdom of Zeal is full of pitiable creatures.
Magus avoids them when he can and ignores them otherwise. The nu stay out of his way. The skulking boy learns his lesson quickly, and Schala, brave stubborn fool, learns her lesson not at all, but gets better at hiding. They find a temporary truce. The cat, though - the cat follows him.
(It should be following the boy, who loves it and his sister like Magus loves nothing.)
It haunts his footsteps, pounces on his cloak, chases the laces of his boots. He has spells to turn aside intruders, but it slips through the door to his chambers while he studies, and leaps into his lap.
(Magic does a poor job banishing cats, when those cats do not want to be banished, and when the magician does not want to banish them.)
He feels the fragile weight of the little thing, wary of strangers but not of him. Its head fits into the curve of his palm, and it purrs when he scratches it between the ears. He has no time for compassion. He has no time.
(The world is ending soon. It will do no harm to let it stay.)
Fandom: Chrono Trigger
Major Characters/Pairings: Magus & Alfador
Wordcount: 200 words
Rating: PG
POV: Third person
Summary: Even a dark magician is no match for a determined cat.
Notes: Originally written as a giftfic for The_Exile on AO3.
The Kingdom of Zeal is full of pitiable creatures.
Magus avoids them when he can and ignores them otherwise. The nu stay out of his way. The skulking boy learns his lesson quickly, and Schala, brave stubborn fool, learns her lesson not at all, but gets better at hiding. They find a temporary truce. The cat, though - the cat follows him.
(It should be following the boy, who loves it and his sister like Magus loves nothing.)
It haunts his footsteps, pounces on his cloak, chases the laces of his boots. He has spells to turn aside intruders, but it slips through the door to his chambers while he studies, and leaps into his lap.
(Magic does a poor job banishing cats, when those cats do not want to be banished, and when the magician does not want to banish them.)
He feels the fragile weight of the little thing, wary of strangers but not of him. Its head fits into the curve of his palm, and it purrs when he scratches it between the ears. He has no time for compassion. He has no time.
(The world is ending soon. It will do no harm to let it stay.)