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[Dec. 13] [Breath of Fire IV] Chedo Reborn
Title: Chedo Reborn
Day/Theme: Dec. 13, 2011 "a city of sounds"
Series: Breath of Fire IV
Character/Pairing: Scias & Ursula (Scias->Ursula)
Rating: PG
Author's comment: Several years post-game.
Chedo was lively again. Scias could walk down the streets and find himself surrounded by children, laughing and screeching as they played their games (and maybe when some ran off crying it was because the others weren't playing fair or they were as babyish and quick to tears as he had been as a child). It had taken years for this kind of cheery noise to fill the once packed and rowdy streets.
Scias would never forget how the imperial capital had been all but razed to the ground by the wrath of Fou-Lu. It had been frightening and silent, with anxiety-inducing not-so-distant plumes of smoke rising from just behind the walls. Destruction was almost immediately apparent, but it was that silence that ate away at his usual calm more than any battered buildings or broken bodies that confronted him. A mercenary would be used to death. Situations of that sort, that screamed of the involvement of the supernatural, were different. ...He had never run into those sorts of things before he met Ryu. They seemed to have tapered off now. Maybe it was because he didn't see Ryu so much anymore. He was usually away on the eastern continent. Apparently (according to what Ursula told him- she was better at keeping in contact), he was still staying with Nina. It warmed his heart a little. Ursula was skeptical as always when they discussed it, but Scias thought the princess and the (former?) god were in it for the long run.
He liked Ursula. A lot. But it was difficult to say. Although he could say that for most things. It didn't matter as long as he could be some use to her and stay by her side. He smiled an awkward, toothy grin, not caring who noticed him. He was headed off to see her right now. That was enough to improve any day.
Whelks gurgled in their stalls and another, its reins in the hands of its owner, strained to move over to its companions. They had been favored by the military, but these days, more whelks had fallen into hands of merchants. There was plenty of haggling in Chedo's market district again. That was one of the ways the capital had been reborn as itself. The lack of an emperor, invisible but for the edicts he issued from the bowels of the castle, was the most notable way it had changed.
General Ursula was still the highest authority in the capital, though discussion raged about who was the proper person to rule the teetering empire. For all the zenny he stood to make in such a situation, Scias was of one mind with the ordinary citizens of the empire. He didn't want to see a civil war. ...But as far as he was concerned, the Fou Empire didn't need a new emperor either. Ursula was managing just fine.
Day/Theme: Dec. 13, 2011 "a city of sounds"
Series: Breath of Fire IV
Character/Pairing: Scias & Ursula (Scias->Ursula)
Rating: PG
Author's comment: Several years post-game.
Chedo was lively again. Scias could walk down the streets and find himself surrounded by children, laughing and screeching as they played their games (and maybe when some ran off crying it was because the others weren't playing fair or they were as babyish and quick to tears as he had been as a child). It had taken years for this kind of cheery noise to fill the once packed and rowdy streets.
Scias would never forget how the imperial capital had been all but razed to the ground by the wrath of Fou-Lu. It had been frightening and silent, with anxiety-inducing not-so-distant plumes of smoke rising from just behind the walls. Destruction was almost immediately apparent, but it was that silence that ate away at his usual calm more than any battered buildings or broken bodies that confronted him. A mercenary would be used to death. Situations of that sort, that screamed of the involvement of the supernatural, were different. ...He had never run into those sorts of things before he met Ryu. They seemed to have tapered off now. Maybe it was because he didn't see Ryu so much anymore. He was usually away on the eastern continent. Apparently (according to what Ursula told him- she was better at keeping in contact), he was still staying with Nina. It warmed his heart a little. Ursula was skeptical as always when they discussed it, but Scias thought the princess and the (former?) god were in it for the long run.
He liked Ursula. A lot. But it was difficult to say. Although he could say that for most things. It didn't matter as long as he could be some use to her and stay by her side. He smiled an awkward, toothy grin, not caring who noticed him. He was headed off to see her right now. That was enough to improve any day.
Whelks gurgled in their stalls and another, its reins in the hands of its owner, strained to move over to its companions. They had been favored by the military, but these days, more whelks had fallen into hands of merchants. There was plenty of haggling in Chedo's market district again. That was one of the ways the capital had been reborn as itself. The lack of an emperor, invisible but for the edicts he issued from the bowels of the castle, was the most notable way it had changed.
General Ursula was still the highest authority in the capital, though discussion raged about who was the proper person to rule the teetering empire. For all the zenny he stood to make in such a situation, Scias was of one mind with the ordinary citizens of the empire. He didn't want to see a civil war. ...But as far as he was concerned, the Fou Empire didn't need a new emperor either. Ursula was managing just fine.