daily 4 word count: 303 song: it's raining somewhere else from undertale “It’s kind of beautiful, isn’t it?” you say, strangely tranquil as you watch the red clouds slowly roll over the land. “You… you can’t say things like that!” he responds indignantly. “It was our job to… to protect them!” “Well, there’s nothing we can do about it now. We’ve failed. All we can do is sit back and enjoy the view.” He begins to say something, most likely a retort, but is cut off by the deafening sound of an asteroid crashing into the ground. You shrug, looking at him sympathetically, as more and more rocks begin to fall from the sky. As the sounds of the world ending begin to reach a crescendo, he slowly, reluctantly takes your hand, smiling along with you as everything he has ever known burns around him. “You see that?” you ask once the noise has died down, pointing towards a large, smoldering crater in the distance. “That was our hometown. Our families, friends, teachers–all of them were there. I guess we couldn’t save them this time, could we?” You laugh softly, then shift your view to another fresher crater, this one still burning brightly against the now dark sky. “And that,” you say, “was where we went to college. All those people, all those friends–just gone in an instant.” As the fire starts to spread towards your mountain and the air around you fills with smoke, his grip on your hand tightens and he begins to cry quietly. “It’s alright,” you say, “it’ll all be over soon. We’ll join them soon.” “I bet they’ll have a lot to say about all this,” he responds, managing to crack one last smile even while the fires climb up the side of the mountain, you become enveloped in smoke, and your glorious little world finally comes to a close.
