Love Her and Despair Remaster [20]

Title: Love Her and Despair
Chapter 20: "Anima Sola"
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Characters: Isaaru, Nooj, Auron, Rikku, Cast
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2000
Summary: Picking up the pieces after Cid goes postal.
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The Story So Far: While helping the Al Bhed in the wake of a Sin attack, Isaaru and his companions are shot by Elder Cid, who appears to have gone mad.

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My dear son.

(Nay, lady, I am a son of Spira. Yet I would be honored to bear your pain.)

My dear, brave son. This time of the spiral, we shall not be sundered. Do not weep, Seymour, for soon all Spira shall recognize you for what you truly are...

(...a monster!)

(The memory flashed from Isaaru's mind to hers with the unshrouded immediacy of fayth's communion— no smile, no politic speech, no polished gesture to soften the blow— a field of blood-red snow, mangled heaps of Ronso warriors tossed like broken trees in an avalanche. The bodies were gutted and limp as if Seymour had spirited away their very bones, not just their souls, to fashion ghastly armor. Surely, Sin was built in this way. There had been precious few to send, and none to save.)

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