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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2011 7:58:38 GMT 10
Title: Work Rating: G Word Count: 227 Pairing: Crane/Rosethorn Round/Fight: 1/F Summary: So he'll push himself until he can save her.
He unties the ribbon around Rosethorn's message and doesn't frown at how thick the stack of papers is, once it's unrolled.
She should be resting; she needs to recover. Every day she is away from the greenhouse, another day of expertise is lost, and hundreds more in Summersea join the armies of the dead. ("You're not getting rid of me that easily," she'd said, and he knows now that she meant it.)
Crane slips the top-most of her papers onto his desk, smoothing it, crisp and crackling, across the precious wood. His white, china paperweight secures the top, while his palm, set against her message's smooth surface, keeps it from rolling back together again. It takes him a few moments to adjust the lamp, to make it bright enough that reading becomes less of a chore.
He reads her words and scribbled ideas, and knows he is fooling himself. No one who has fallen ill has survived the Blue Pox. No one. Rosethorn, with her sharp mind and irrational affections and coarse mouth -- she's going to die unless a cure is found. He knows this as well as her wild-eyed apprentice does. Better. He'll do anything to keep it from happening.
So he'll push himself, and the boy, and indeed Rosethorn herself, even if she's near death, until he can buy the passage for her return.
QC by peroxidepirate
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Kit
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Post by Kit on Mar 30, 2011 12:49:10 GMT 10
gah! I love these scenelets from Healing in the Vine. You work beautifully with cannon.
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sidonie
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Post by sidonie on Mar 30, 2011 12:51:06 GMT 10
Lovely. I adore this look at how much harder Crane pushes himself when her life is on the line.
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