Angel Sanctuary Fan Fiction ❯ The Twelve Days of Christmas ❯ Geese a' Laying ( Chapter 6 )

AN: A lot of the info in this is lifted straight from book 16, but a lot of it's kind of sketchy too. For one thing, did that guy who was in love with Layla even have a name? (sweats) You know, that guy who was a dragon when Setsuna met him in hell, whose name I can't remember either...? Just to be safe, I didn't call him anything, but that's who the characters are, heh. Also, did that guy even actually work on the Sandalphon project...? Eh, whatever. `Six geese a' laying' most appropriately means the six days of creation, so this was another one that was a perfect fit ;) Also, I told you stuff from chapter four would be showing up again...

 

Six x Geese a' Laying

 

Deck the halls with boughs of holly,

'Tis the season to be jolly.

 

It was the song that drew him to stray from his path and go instead down the corridor where one with such a lowly position in the project as himself should have been forbidden. He was well aware of what the consequences would be, should he be caught down here, but there was simply no way he could resist this voice.

 

Don we now our gay apparel,

Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol,

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...

 

He knew this voice, he swore he did, but could it really be? The singer interrupted herself with laughter, and what a gentle, bubbling laugh she had - and yet there could be no mistake, as he gazed around the shadowed corner at her.

 

See the blazing Yule log before us.

Strike the harp and join the chorus.

 

There was no doubt about it; it was the very same girl he had seen late last Sunday, sitting in the chapel after everybody else had gone and singing `Kyrie Eleison' with the sunlight streaming down around her.

 

Follow me in merry measure,

While I tell of Yule-tide treasure,

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...

 

He had not been able to tear his eyes away from that amazing presence then, and now was much the same. Silken hair and a beautiful face - but it was so much more than that. He felt as though he had never seen innocence before.

 

Fast away the old year passes.

Hail the new year, lads and lasses.

 

He was so caught up in her that her song was almost done before he even realized what she was singing to. His eyes widened. She could even sing to something so... frightening...?

 

Sing we joyous, all together,

Heedless of the wind and weather,

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...

 

Her song finished, the girl touched the glass tank lovingly. “That's a song from Earth, Sandalphon,” she whispered. “It's really pretty, isn't it?”

 

As the man hurried away again, he worried that the girl might be too innocent.

 

TBC