fic_promptly ficlet: Plures

[terajk]

Title: Plures
Rating: G
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters: Kyuubey
Word count: 188
Summary: For the prompt: (skip) "I wish you could feel the emotions of the girls whose lives you ruin, Incubator."





The first thing the New sees is the dead knowledge, a smoking mass of black paper and cardboard. The second is the face of the One who killed it.

"I wish you could feel the emotions of the girls whose lives you ruin, Incubator," she says, and cocks her gun.

What sort of creature is this, Kyuubey wonder, to kill its own knowledge and feel nothing? Kyuubey live to serve the Knowledge—they are its vessels, the magical girls whose space it fills. When one dies, the Knowledge pushes another forward.

Save the universe, the Knowledge says. It will explode if you don't.

But then, humans put knowledge in dead things, don't they? All around things that were once green and alive are stacked on top of each other in neat rows. And one of the things has the One's bullet in it.

A ripple of horror passes through Kyuubey, through all the curls and layers of their mind. Then, because it is shared, it is gone.

They shrink themselves into human language, even as they stretch to fill empty human space. I have many forms.

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

Oh, how dark and intriguing. o.o I like it!

[terajk]

Thank you! I enjoyed writing it. It was different for me, too, since the last thing I wrote with Kyuubey in it was during the hiatus, and I was really mad at him/them.

:3