Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Shorn ❯ 05 ( Chapter 5 )

05

 

So much has changed.

 

I am no longer the boy I once was.

 

That I am a widower is of no more importance than the fact that I am a killer. They are my past. I have done with grieving.

 

The tiles are cool beneath my knees. The pale robes pool around me like snowfall.

 

I had never seen snow before coming to Earth. Not real, wild snow.

 

Gentle hands guide my head to bow.

 

Warm oil carries the scent of flowers I do not know by name. For a moment, it washes my hair forward in a soft curtain of black.

 

The black of space is now my nighttime sky, never again my battlefield. I have turned away from such things, by coming here.

 

For the first time in my life, my heart is light.

 

Blade glides across skin

Removing warrior's hair

Leaving penitence

 

 

[A/N: look up “Vajrayana” at Wikipedia]