Ficlet: Bubbles (Soul Eater, Crona & Kid)

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Title: Bubbles
Rating: G
Fandom: Soul Eater
Characters: Crona, Death the Kid
Word count: 160+
Note: Spoilers for episode 26 

“Crona, look at that!”

Crona doesn’t understand many things about hir friends: how they can be insulting each other one minute and laughing together the next, their insistence on asking hir questions when sie’d rather float in the sea of their voices. Why they pay attention to hir at all.

But Crona is used to not understanding things--floating, it’s like floating--and sie follows his hand to the two bleeding moons: the one in the sky, and the one in the lake. (It makes hir think of Ragnarok and hirself, layers like the chords Soul plays on his piano when they all resonate together.) And then he’s talking, talking about beauty and magnificence and symmetry, symmetry most of all, and sie doesn’t understand any of it but there are champagne bubbles in Crona’s stomach and sie wants to stand on tiptoe and giggle. It’s like being infected with Lady Medusa's killing madness, except not.

Crona doesn’t understand many things about hir friends, but sie doesn’t really mind.