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Post by max on Feb 25, 2010 16:13:37 GMT 10
Ethos G #18 - Spirit Wyldon, after Kel's first year. Because no one's written anything for it.
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How hard it is to fight ghosts, he can’t help but think, walking down the palace halls in the silent hours between sunset and nightfall, when the pages are all abed and he is relieved of his duties. The ache in his side and the smell of rain herald a thunderstorm – the first of the summer – and his thoughts return – irrevocably – to the hazel-eyed page whose heart and body are so ill-matched. He hadn’t wanted her there, not with the lads, not in their world. Not even in these times, when so many of his boys had fallen in the golden years of their youth to stormwing strike and hurrok claw (he feels the lines of his lips thin as something beneath his shoulder blade aches sharply) Yet she had found the spidrens – a victory for both of them (because whatever she is, he is too) – and he had not been able to send her home (and she won’t go, that much he knows)
The laws of the world are changing, and for all that he is considered one of the powers of this realm, the last bastion of chivalry, he is not blind enough not to recognise the folly of fighting that inevitable, inexorable shift. Commoners are educated and females go to war and their princes are married to barbarians and somewhere in between she is balance and epitome of this new age.
And because he was once too, he will do the best he can by her.
He has to.
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Post by Verasque on Feb 28, 2010 20:33:04 GMT 10
because whatever she is, he is tooI can't help but be enchanted by your beautiful writing. Wyldon was just amazing
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Post by max on Mar 1, 2010 13:03:56 GMT 10
I've never written Wyldon before from his pov, so thank you.
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Post by ubiquitous on Mar 11, 2010 8:39:52 GMT 10
Oh, this is lovely! I adore the last line. ^.^
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Post by aurorax on Apr 1, 2010 10:47:47 GMT 10
I love the line "And because he was once too, he will do the best he can by her. He has to.", a really interesting perspective on what motivates Wyldon to see the world as he does. And "somewhere in between she is balance and epitome of this new age.", which is such a powerful and true statement of what Kel means to the realm. I love the idea that Wyldon and Kel are both turning points, and it brings them together.
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