Title: Vocal Memory
Day/Theme: July 2 - the limit of a sweet memory
Series: Tales of Symphonia
Character/Pairing: Kratos, Anna
Rating: PG
Note: Eh, not sure. Just something short.


There wasn't much he could remember about her now. The smell of her hair, her breathing, the gentle way her touch would brush against his skin. Things like that had long faded from his memory, even just over the passage of fourteen years. Simple things about her, the things he had found he treasured, were leaving him.

But, her voice, the sweet way her voice rang when she called out to him remained. He could never forget that - never try to forget that - as long as he would live. Even as he continued to lose so many things about her to the steady passage of time, he could not forget that. Even if he lost the rest of the things he treasured about her, at least that would remain.

So, as he left Lloyd behind to serve his penance in the vast loneliness that Derris Kharlan would provide, he do not feel sorrow when he left the locket with his son. Kratos knew that he would always have the gentle memory of her voice with him, even without the image of her with him.