| Ficbit Challenge 4
Thirteen
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| There were three things it had never been safe to do around Jecht:
turn your back, let your guard down, or fall asleep. No, actually, there
were five things it had never been safe to do around Jecht:
turn your back, let your guard down, fall asleep, assume anything, or predict
his reaction. Seven things it had never been safe to do around Jecht: turn
your back, let your guard down, fall asleep, assume anything, predict his
reaction, have any faith in the human condition, or try to maintain any
dignity at all. Nine things... Auron sighed and gave up trying
to chronicle the list.
Unfortunately, it was only the two of them trying to safeguard Spira's most--Auron privately admitted it--bubbleheaded summoner, and his responsibilities therefore required him to do unsafe things around Jecht every hour of every day. Falling asleep at dinner, though, that hadn't been anything except poor judgment on his part. Well, and exhaustion, certainly, but... poor judgment. He didn't know where the purple cape and the matching wide-brimmed hat had come from, and he refused to speculate on where the girls had come from, but they had to have come from somewhere. He'd seen the sphere on which Jecht had gleefully recorded the result, and he'd never hated Jecht quite so much as at that one single incandescent moment when Jecht had sniggered and shown it to him... but not a day later he had something else even worse to hate Jecht for, and he'd forgotten all about the incriminating sphere. Ten years later he found it prudent to knock a certain sphere off the edge of the Calm Lands before anyone else noticed it was there. |
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