El Hazard Fan Fiction ❯ MrWhat's "El-Hazard" drabbles ❯ Time Passes ( Chapter 29 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
TITLE: Time Passes
BLURB: Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.
BASED ON: El-Hazard OVA
TYPE: Humor; 200 words ("double drabble")
AUTHOR: Eric Adcock <adcockea@echoalpha.com>
DATE: October 2002
ARCHIVE: http://echoalpha.com/fanfic/

Yup, it's yet another angst joke. But other peoples' misery can be so much *fun*...

This takes place some time after the end of the first OVA series.

El-Hazard (c) AIC / Pioneer LDC / Geneon.

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Nanami encountered Ifurita in the Shinonome Diner, sitting off by herself, vacantly staring through a window.

Nanami smiled warmly. "What's up? Whatcha doin'?"

Ifurita turned and rolled her eyes up to Nanami. "I am... ticking away... the moments that make up a dull day.

"I am watching the days pass, so very slowly, yet all too fast. I am watching my dear friends grow old and die, before my very eyes, while I am trapped by the terrible curse of immortality, unable to take my own life because it would hurt my friends.

"I am passing millenia, knowing that, in the end, the sun will explode and destroy this world in a hellish inferno beyond all imagining. Only then shall my life come to an end. Only then shall I know true peace."

Nanami fell into a seat next to Ifurita, breathing out heavily, dragged down by the sheer weight of Ifurita's response.

Time passed.

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Shayla encountered Ifurita and Nanami in the Shinonome Diner, sitting off by themselves, vacantly staring through a window.

Shayla smiled warmly. "What's up? Whatcha doin'?"

Nanami turned and rolled her eyes up to Shayla. "We're... ticking away... the moments that make up a dull day..."

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