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sunlight on snow
It shines brightly, even against the stark white of snow.
He remembers when a fragment of the sun had broken from the brightness beyond the bars and hopped into his prison, looking at him with curious eyes. It had sat on his fingers and spoken to him in a language he didn't know, and when he replied, it had merely cocked its little head without comprehension, but that hadn't mattered to either of them.
And he remembers the day when the sun set and its feathered child remained, soft gold against the stark grey stone, until the light was gone, and when the sun rose again it was there still, still as stone. He had tried to reach it then, and tried again until the snow fell and covered what few scraps of gold remained.
Unfettered and with no bars between them, it is still beyond his reach. Goku bows his head against the cold and walks on.
It shines brightly, even against the stark white of snow.
He remembers when a fragment of the sun had broken from the brightness beyond the bars and hopped into his prison, looking at him with curious eyes. It had sat on his fingers and spoken to him in a language he didn't know, and when he replied, it had merely cocked its little head without comprehension, but that hadn't mattered to either of them.
And he remembers the day when the sun set and its feathered child remained, soft gold against the stark grey stone, until the light was gone, and when the sun rose again it was there still, still as stone. He had tried to reach it then, and tried again until the snow fell and covered what few scraps of gold remained.
Unfettered and with no bars between them, it is still beyond his reach. Goku bows his head against the cold and walks on.
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