melodiesoflife | Event || The Festival Of Light

Event || The Festival Of Light

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: July 27th - August 03rd
Summary: Feel free to use this post to participate in the Festival of Light. Post your own threads or jump into someone else's thread-- This is a free for all mingle post!
Warning: N/A

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[Terra has come a long way since first gaining access to her custom job. Sephiroth had tried to be there when he could, as often he felt that he just wasn't there enough. He feels a swell of pride, for one of the first times towards another person, and it pulls his smile to the outside corners of his eyes. It feels both like he's on top of the world yet at the same time close to tears.

He completely misses how her additional comment could be taken as flirtatious. If there is one thing they haven't had to be around each other, it's trying to convince each other of the others worth that way. It's all just come about naturally and that's just as well.]

These hand-held ones, or those huge explosions overhead?

[A soft laugh escapes Terra's lips as she looks back down towards the small sparkler in her hand. She watches as the bright glittering fire reach towards her fingers as it slowly begins to go out.]

Both?

[Even if it's something small, Terra loves learning about Sephiroth. She knows he's a soldier and that he is strong but there is more to him lingering just beneath the surface.]

If that's alright.

[If it was anyone else they simply wouldn't be privy to a great deal of the tiny details about him, his likes and peeves, Terra is the exception to the rule. He trusts her to the point now where the small voice that warns him of betrayal, of letting himself get too close, has hushed to less than a whisper.]

I've seen my fair share, of both. Back home.

[He takes the exhausted, burned out stick from Terra as soon as the sparkler has gone out.]

Public celebrations, much like this Festival. New Year. End of the war. President's birthday- [A few examples-]

How about you?

[Terra releases the sparkler and drops her hand to her side. She leans against Sephiroth, her chin tilted up towards the fireworks that continued to crash overhead. They were building to a crescendo of light and sounds.]

Nothing like this.

[She replies in a soft voice.]

Nothing like the small ones. There were some bigger ones but I never knew what they were for.

[She'd lived through a war time and while there were parties and celebrations it was hardly her place to always be there. There were some memories of them but they were hazy at best.]

I'm not sure what celebrations there are.

[The bright and sometimes loud explosions throw the shadows of the night all around in all sorts of strange ways but he couldn't prevent from being enraptured by the effect it had on the face of the girl that he's grown so fond of. Sephiroth imagined he had etched almost every inch of that face to his memory yet-]

Celebrations differ depending on what world you're on, I think.

[He's not really sure where to take this topic of discussion but here's for trying-]

For example, I heard that for a lot of Heroes, there is a festival similar to the Starlight Celebration, but I don't recall anything like that where I'm from.

[But like Terra, it's just as likely that it just hadn't been his place, either.]

[Terra nods her head, feeling a warm calm descend over her. The fireworks increase in volume, light and sound as the finally hits the sky in a brilliant show of force. The smile pulls wider over her lips and even as she responses she can't pull her eyes away from the display.]

I think it's wonderful. I hope... to see them again.

[Seconds pass, building into minutes before the fireworks end. Terra doesn't know what time it is but the night feels darker in the absence of the sparkling lights in the sky.]

I suppose, it's time to go home.

[As Terra's attention is drawn more to the fireworks display as it reaches it's crescendo, Sephiroth too finds his neck craned up to get lost in the continuous bright flashes of light. The louder explosions sometimes cause a flinch from him too, but Terra will be the only person in the world who might even notice that.

Everything feels darker, and so much more silent in the wake of such a display, as they eventually head home.]

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Event || The Festival Of Light

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