Post by jazzyjess on Feb 11, 2010 16:51:56 GMT 10
Title: For Reasons Unknown
Rating: G
Length: 320
Competitor: Rikash
Round/Fight: 1/B
Summary: Rikash reflects on Kel.
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There are many things Rikash doesn’t know, too many to dwell on; indeed, too many to fathom. What he most of all doesn’t know is why he is drawn to Keladry of Mindelan. She is a mortal and a human and a noblewoman. She is not pretty and she is not small. She is a knight who hates his kind because of their very nature, and they hate her because of hers.
And yet, there is a force like magnetism that keeps pulling him to her. In the mornings, she practices with her glaive, and he perches on the roof to watch her as she moves from one pattern dance into the next. Afternoons she is in the courtyards of her refugee camp, teaching the quarterstaff to the new residents and encouraging the others as they steadily improve – and he is on the camp wall, peering down at her with eyes as sharp as an eagle’s, metal wings clicking as he paces and stares.
She is hard-working and patient but aside from what he sees, there is little else in her that he admires. For a long time he ponders her, sifting through memories until his conscience can catch up. When it does, it surprises him, and his eyes follow her as she greets messengers on horseback arriving with orders from Mastiff.
It is her spirit, he decides, the fire in her heart that will not be unlit, and the fervor to be great that he has seen before. She is not small and she is not pretty, but she is like Maura in her soul. He is denied from seeing Maura – that was his bargain with the Black God for return to life – but this Lady Knight is similar enough that she just might do.
He holds no affection for her yet, but Rikash is prepared to wait, because he believes that even the quiet ones have steel inside.
Rating: G
Length: 320
Competitor: Rikash
Round/Fight: 1/B
Summary: Rikash reflects on Kel.
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There are many things Rikash doesn’t know, too many to dwell on; indeed, too many to fathom. What he most of all doesn’t know is why he is drawn to Keladry of Mindelan. She is a mortal and a human and a noblewoman. She is not pretty and she is not small. She is a knight who hates his kind because of their very nature, and they hate her because of hers.
And yet, there is a force like magnetism that keeps pulling him to her. In the mornings, she practices with her glaive, and he perches on the roof to watch her as she moves from one pattern dance into the next. Afternoons she is in the courtyards of her refugee camp, teaching the quarterstaff to the new residents and encouraging the others as they steadily improve – and he is on the camp wall, peering down at her with eyes as sharp as an eagle’s, metal wings clicking as he paces and stares.
She is hard-working and patient but aside from what he sees, there is little else in her that he admires. For a long time he ponders her, sifting through memories until his conscience can catch up. When it does, it surprises him, and his eyes follow her as she greets messengers on horseback arriving with orders from Mastiff.
It is her spirit, he decides, the fire in her heart that will not be unlit, and the fervor to be great that he has seen before. She is not small and she is not pretty, but she is like Maura in her soul. He is denied from seeing Maura – that was his bargain with the Black God for return to life – but this Lady Knight is similar enough that she just might do.
He holds no affection for her yet, but Rikash is prepared to wait, because he believes that even the quiet ones have steel inside.