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Post by max on Mar 4, 2010 19:26:02 GMT 10
Title: Mäkü Rating: G Length: 256 Competitor: Faleron Round/Fight: 2/A Summary: Fluff and spring rain. A lot of he says/she says.
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One morning he is leaning out the window, the grey light shining across his bare back and he says
‘It’s the first day of spring,’
Without turning around, and she doesn’t know how he knows she’s awake, and it’s the wrong time to do anything other than accept it, so she slides out of bed and walks over to him. The windows are open onto a downpour, water falling in icy veils down from the sky, and it is still as cold as it was yesterday, and the day before, and she says
‘It certainly doesn’t feel like it.’
No one else is living in King’s Reach House apart from them – and they only transiently, shifting between the chaos of Mindelan House and the dignity of the Palace week to week – so when he says
‘I’ll show you what I mean,’
She lets herself be taken, down hall and stairs and out into the enormous central courtyard, is instantly soaked through, cotton nightshirt sticking to her skin and she is about to protest but he leans in so she can hear him say, above, the rain,
‘Now breathe it in.’
And she complies, inhaling the richness of broken earth and the sweetness of green things, and the fragrance of his own skin which has no match, and he is looking into her eyes, nodding, because she has understood it, and for a moment Keladry marvels at having been able to find this person, who sees the world this way.
She is god-touched, but he is earth-loved.
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Post by wordy on Mar 4, 2010 20:37:43 GMT 10
I love this! I love the 'grey light shining across his bare back', and the second last paragraph, and the last line is just perfect.
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Post by max on Mar 4, 2010 20:40:29 GMT 10
Thank you.
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Post by jazzyjess on Mar 5, 2010 19:16:12 GMT 10
That last line is perfect.
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