Post-Lucetific - Dhaos, True!Grune - Spoilers ahoy!

[seikilos]

Title: Perennial
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Tales of Phantasia
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Words: 222
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: Grune reflects on how very quickly Dhaos has become vital to her.
Author's Notes: This was originally the opening to another fic I hope to post soon (working title: "Resquiescat in pace"), but I decided it strayed too far from the overall focus. It works decently enough as a stand-alone drabbly thing, though, so I tweaked it and cleaned it up, and thus here we are.

It takes longer than usual to convince Dhaos to let her go out alone into the next unfamiliar world. It is only to be expected, after the task she has just completed. There had been no beings resembling him on her last world and no possibility of disguising him (they could pretend accident for one missing limb, or two—but not four), and so she had bid him farewell and left him to guard the mana tree in her absence.

She had returned—to his perception of time—bare days later, but she had been unable to conceal from him that her victory had been nearly a defeat. It was clear that, in her absence, he had been dwelling on his inability to help; that the safety of a world had been in such danger while he had been able only to rest within the tree and wait had clearly disturbed him more still.

She would have reminded him that she had accepted the never-existence of enough worlds to fill millions upon millions of galaxies—but truthfully, she had come to rely upon his comfort so quickly. One scant century, and yet her first thoughts upon rebirth are always of him. He is her perennial seed of hope, giving new life season after season not to the worlds endangered by Schwartz's misguided love, but to her.

Comments

[northeasternwind]

D'aaaaaw, Grune... Also Dhaos, for not being able to come with her. T___T Although yes, it would have been difficult to disguise him in those circumstances. Yeah, he would definitely be dwelling on him sitting around doing nothing, which is the worst thing for him to be doing. HE'S A PRINCE. HE NEEDS TO BE USEFUL.

But alskdjka Grune, relying on him. DAAAAAW. And the first thing she thinks about upon rebirth being Dhaos all the time ♥ Clearly he underestimates his role.

Well, I can see how this might be cut out of a fic, but it does stand well on its own XD

[lostinmyway]

Yeah, Grune tries to avoid those situations as much as possible, since she knows full well the dude doesn't idle well. TRY TO THINK OF IT AS A VACATION, DHAOS?

Oh, he definitely does. I mean, he's the only other person beside Schwartz who's a constant in her life. That alone would be huge, but then she's in love with him on top of that. She's definitely going to be relying on him. ♥

Yeah, I was surprised! But definitely in the good way.

By the way, I posted a couple of Dhaos things while you were separated from your internet, so here. Enjoy!

[northeasternwind]

VACATIONS SUCK WHEN YOU ONLY HAVE A TREE TO SPEND THEM WITH D8 At least Dhaos hopefully knows that Grune is conscious of this, and she's not just leaving him behind because oh she doesn't want him to get huuuuuuurt.

D'aaaaaaw ♥ It's nice to have people you see regularly who aren't enemies, huh Grune? ^^ MAKE HIM FEEL LOVED, MMMYES.

OOOOOH I SHALL TOTALLY ENJOY THESE

Because the more Dhaos, the better. XD Thankee kindly, I shall get to work! ^O^

[vyctori]

BUT IT'S A VERY NICE TREE! There might be a bit of that early on, though. She does see him as being kind of fragile, which is hilarious.

Just slightly, yes! AND SHE VERY MUCH WILL....

Excellent! Take your time, of course. But I think there are at least three or four. ♥