[fic] Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Surely, surely
First, Sainan no Kekka's domain is back up. Yay.

And now, this is for aishuu, who requested an Utena short. I have never written Anthy ever. Like, ever.
This was interesting.

SHOUJO KAKUMEI UTENA
Himemiya Anthy, 342 words



きっときっと
[Surely, Surely]

She has heard that all the stars in the night sky are in actuality glass marbles on a giant playing board. On her brother's birthday, she gives him a bag of cats-eye marbles in a mesh bag, the cheap kind from the 100 yen store. He seems to like them, and she does not tell him where she bought them. Kanae, who is classy and sophisticated unlike his bumbling little sister, gifts him with a gorgeous blown crystal vase full of a dozen long-stemmed red roses.

After the birthday cake is eaten and Kanae is obediently kissed and seen from the premises, her brother puts the flowers in a plain ceramic cup in the sink. Then he opens the bag of marbles and tips it into the vase. He admires the reflection of the planetarium lights on the marbles through the gleaming facets.

"Oniisama," she says, "those are playing marbles."

"It's not time to play yet, Anthy," he tells her patiently.

Later when all is quiet she gets up from where he has left her and slips silently back into the lonely, cold room where she keeps a spare change of clothes for occasions such as these. The clock strikes one-thirty in the morning, and she should be going home. Her roommate will be asleep at the table with the television on, waiting for her, and she has forgotten to feed Chuchu in the rush.

But instead she goes back into the darkened room where he lies almost invisible on the couch, dark skin and shadowed planes of his face repugnant and angelic all at once. She fixes her eyes on him until she feels she cannot stand to look at him any longer.

Before she leaves, she goes to the table and pours the marbles from the vase into her hand one by one, until they overflow and spill onto the floor in blinding globes of light. One strikes the table leg, shatters. The planetarium's glow is hazy yellow and blue and violently red, glittering on those scattered shards like rose thorns.