Metallic (FFIV, Rydia, PG)

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Metallic

Fandom: FFIV
Characters/Pairing: Rydia, Cecil, Kain
Rating: PG

Notes: 100-word drabble. Catching up on the claim (finally!).

Claim: Rydia, challenge
Theme: #41, 'Monsters'

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The things in her nightmares are always dark, and horned. They walk like men, two-legged: shaped of metal rather than muscle, wearing sharply-pronged masks where fleshed faces should be.

Rydia wakes shuddering, for years, at the relentless sounds their metallic steps make; to her, it sounds like chains. The Feymarch, breathing organic, is the only thing that calms her; her flesh-and-bone eidolons are nothing like the distant, empty-armored fiends of her dreams.

The odd relief she feels to find Cecil a Paladin is explained when she is again faced with Kain, and her ears fill with chains and dark armor.




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