writetomyheart | [team three] de soufre

sf9; taeyang/hwiyoung; 525w; G — metro 2033-inspired, this is about light, and unfinished.

Way up above, on the surface, is where stars twinkle and clouds float, mingle, disappear (turn into rain). Way up above, on the surface, is where buildings reach up, up and up, to them — where they fail, and, kissed with the colour, the feelings of ashes, they pass their expiration date -

So the rumours say.

Way up above, on the surface, far away from civilisation (what it used to be back then), green outshines grey, and glows under the sun. Green is everywhere - beats every other colour

(Except for blue, reigning over the surface's carrier)

(Roaring at Youngkyun's feet, when he dreams of standing by the cliff's edge)

Green is king, and will not let anyone, or anything, overpower him.

So the rumours say.

'You see,' an unusually high-voice rings in Youngkyun's head (a memory from years ago, years down the drain, more obscure than encounters he has read about, on monsters, and screeches, and

Humans)

'You see. Nature is the overruler, the one who created everything, from us to the world to the rules that bide us all together, alive. Of course, naturally, she will not let any of us attempt, feeble, frail, to overtake her.'

So Sanghyuk had said, twelve years old and yet (in this very moment) (like he often was, when he talked about The Above) wiser than anyone else, bigger than the tallest, oldest adult around.

So Youngkyun had remembered. young and a little less brave, a little more of a dreamer. A little more of a loner, too, Sanghyuk's departure had proven, but

Tthis doesn't quite matter now.)

✨️

Way up above, on the surface, is where blue dominates and dominates and dominates. It is all you can see, sprinkled with whites, and nothing else matters if you never look down.

Taeyang looks down.

(You shouldn't — but he does.)

Way

Down below, then, in the underground, is where dust piles up and ants crawl through tunnels. Way down below, is where civilisation settled aeons ago, to recover, to heal - to wait. But waiting turned into living, and now - none can remember when the underneath was crowded.

So it's said.

Way down below, in the underground, is black and black and black — darkness, with never a ray of light to grace faces, to grace hands, to grace people. The unknown, for none has ever tried to venture there again, after all this time (because none

Actually wants to)

(None

Is interested in ants)

Humanity's biggest win - for worse. nothing to bother yourself with, with the sights around. nothing to really consider, with the life above.

Nothing to look at, really.

Apparently.

But - Taeyang looks down.

Ants lead interesting lives, and they make for interesting revelations — they work hard, and are the reason other species survive. Ants are

Necessary, slightly ugly but the strongest.

Way up above

Light pierces eyelids even when they are closed

Light

never once stops shining.

It burns, and lights sweat, fever ablaze.

It never ends.

It misses something.

It lacks darkness.

Taeyang looks down.

Way down below -

he has no idea what lies there.

And people lie, people say

a lot

But truthfully,

none

Really does.

stage's all yours, shinysylver!