Emily M.

Title: Five-Dimensional Chess
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Relationship: Brain & Ephemer
Rating: G
Content notes: trust issues
Words: 1,245
Summary: It’s Brain’s job to make sure no one but him sees inside the Book of Prophecies. Coincidentally, Ephemer is on record with just how much he would really like to see inside the Book of Prophecies.

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Brain tapped his fingers against the dark wood of the Master’s desk, and heaved a sigh despite himself. He had expected this enterprise — scouring through the books that had been left behind when the Foretellers had exited stage right from the world — to be a bit more fruitful. The secrets he had uncovered so far were juicy to be sure, but what he really needed were the dry, boring details that would help him come to a complete understanding of Daybreak Town’s present situation.

Of course, he had another source of information available to him that could potentially shed some light on things. But pulling it out was easier said than done. When Ava had handed over the Book of Prophecies, she had stressed the importance of it being for its owner’s eyes only. Not that Brain was a huge fan of following the rules, but it was a good heuristic to at least figure out why a rule existed before tossing it out.

And pulling out the Book now was tantamount to consigning that rule to the garbage heap, considering that lately it was impossible to get even a few minutes of uninterrupted reading in before—

( “Hey, Brain! Working hard or hardly working?” )