Key to the Future (Kero gen)

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Title: Key to the Future
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Length: 193 words
Prompt: First sentence meme: "Kero did not sleep well that night."
Pairing: Kero gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Her hand curled around the absence of the key she normally wore around her neck and she turned over, sighing. Kero stared in horror for a moment before shaking her awake.

Kero did not sleep well that night.

He wasn't sure exactly why. He was always a strong sleeper (or he might have woken and prevented Sakura opening the Book, and wouldn't that have been terrible?), but that night he just tossed and turned.

"You'll be all right," Sakura said out loud, clearly, making him jolt and stare, but her eyes were shut. She was talking in her sleep.

That was when he felt the flare of magic, of something irrevocably gone. Her hand curled around the absence of the key she normally wore around her neck and she turned over, sighing. Kero stared in horror for a moment before shaking her awake.

She just smiled at him. "Let's trust in the future, Kero-chan, okay?" she said. She patted him on the head.

He lay awake until dawn, regardless. The Cards were content, not restless, though aware. But all Kero could think was: Clow was involved in this somehow. How much more hadn't he been told? Hadn't he been a good guardian?

The Guardian Beast sighed. "Trust in the future," he mumbled. All right, he would. It had always worked before, after all.