Like many animanga fandoms, Weiss Kreuz suffers from "gem eyes" syndrome, where the ludicrous colors of the characters' eyes in the source are rendered yet more ludicrous by the terms in which they are described in a great deal of fanfiction. This drabble was the result of reading too many such stories. Eliza and Rune did beta duty.

The schoolgirls talk about Aya's eyes, giggling, in metaphors of gemstone and flower: amethyst and orchid, lilac and lavender and violet. Poetic, Yohji thinks, but wildly inaccurate.

When Aya retreats into Abyssinian, his eyes are the color of ice-floes and just as cold. Unblinking, he cuts down his opponents and faces all obstacles with the deadly calm of winter. Yohji shivers sometimes, caught in that gaze.

Then the mission ends, enemies dead and blood spilled. Abyssinian never sticks around for the clean-up; the ice melts, and what's left is a color like fresh bruises.

That gaze too makes Yohji shiver.

~END~