a winter labyrinth

[townmusician]

断ち切るしかないんだろ
注いだ冬は心のラビリンス
後戻りなんて出来ないから
やりきるしかないんだろ
黒い気持ちと手を繋いだって構わない
抱きしめたっていいh

I have to break free
This pouring winter is my heart's labyrinth
I can't go back anymore, so
I have to finish this
I don't care if you took my hand with dark motives
I want you to hold me close

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[ledbythewind]

[The pain of the tiger's fangs sinking into his shoulder draws a sharp cry... but then, as the scenery fades away around him, reforming itself into a clifftop covered with flowers and shaded by an enormous tree, the rest of the sound dies in his throat.

Asbel and Sophie turn to look back at him with a smile, holding out their hands as if to gesture him to come closer, to take another look at where those names are still carved into the bark of the tree even seven years later. Isn't that what they'd vowed? That no matter what happened, the three of them would always be friends...

... there's someone else there among the flowers too, though. Several someones - the people he's met here, Sunrise and Mafuyu and Fray and Shalem and everyone else who has shown him that perhaps humanity really isn't as awful as he'd managed to convince himself.

If there's anyone else there, however, he can't see them (9).]

This is...

[townmusician]

[It's a perfect world, just for him, a dream packaged neatly. He can enjoy this for as long as he wants, if he lets himself...

It won't last forever, and nothing in this utopia will change, because it's just a rough fabrication. That can still be enough, can't it?]

[ledbythewind]

[Can it? Richard really would like it to be, but...

He takes one, two steps forward, still in disbelief. This isn't all just another dream, right?]

How did all of you get here?

[In the back of his mind, there's still a certain amount of awareness that this scene shouldn't really exist. There's no way it can exist now, not when...]

[townmusician]

[There's no answer—how could there be, when this is just images cobbled together? Haruka doesn't know the people Richard made promises with, and there's no point to play out a silly little thing.

The paradise is just a distraction, and it's a hollow thing. If he looks off into the distance he'll be able to see walls, like he's just been on a sound stage this whole time.]