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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 23, 2010 18:43:06 GMT 10
Title: Second Time Around 5 Rating: PG Length: 160 words Competitor: Buriam Tourakom Round/Fight: 1/E Summary: Buri has issues and Kel helps her deal.
Note: lyrics and inspiration are from "Second Time Around" by Indigo Girls. Word count doesn't include the lyrics.
You said you heard Loretta sing and you felt the loneliness seeping in. The cowboys made you uneasy, you're a God-fearing lesbian. So you learn not to yearn and you take it on the chin again.
“Was there a reason?”
“Of course.” Buri was silent long enough for Kel to wonder if she was going to tell the story at all.
“There was a woman,” she finally said. “Singing K'miri songs, for Princess Vania's coming-of-age party. Songs my people – the women of my tribe – used to sing. I was there with Raoul, of course, and he had no idea what the songs meant to me.”
“Did you tell him?”
Buri rubbed her eyes, then took another sip of her drink. “It's not something I can explain. Especially surrounded, as we were, by all his friends from the Own.” She shuddered. “All those upstanding, noble young men in their shining blue and silver. And I couldn't... couldn't stop thinking that Thayet would understand. She's K'miri – half, anyway – and a woman. And he's not... and not.” Her hands clenched around her mug. “I just couldn't pretend anymore.”
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Post by greenie on Feb 25, 2010 16:33:00 GMT 10
Ooh, this is fascinating!
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