Post by Lisa on Feb 21, 2010 2:53:30 GMT 10
Title: Interpreting the Future
Rating: G
Length: 272 words
Competitor: Buri
Round/Fight: 1/E
Summary: Buri has known her destiny, but perhaps made the decisions too soon.
There is a giant – a larger than life person with an even larger capacity to love – in your future. Someone who takes care of the under-privileged and the weak, who will look after others. This person will look to you and love you, and you have the chance to embrace that love or hold it at an arm’s length. The decision will be yours.
Almost twenty-two years later, when Buri married her own gentle giant, she reflected on the Doi seer’s words, whispered into her ears on a frigid night in a tiny inn in the Lumuhu Valley when they were facing on things too frightening for a young girl to face – the least of it her own future. She assumed the woman had been speaking of Raoul, who was so larger than life, and who took care of misfits left and right, starting with her on the voyage home from Port Udayapur.
But it was too late – several years too late – when Buri realized that Raoul wasn’t the giant of her prophecy. The more she learned of Keladry of Mindelan, the more she knew how wrong she had been to assume it was Raoul.
Kel’s sense of duty, her dedication those who needed help, put Raoul’s to shame. He often did what was morally, right, but Kel almost always did what was right at all costs. She looked to Buri for guidance, and now, even with love. Buri had the choice to push her away, or pull her close – the decision was hers, the Doi woman said. So she took in her arms this larger-than-life woman, this Protector of the Small.
Rating: G
Length: 272 words
Competitor: Buri
Round/Fight: 1/E
Summary: Buri has known her destiny, but perhaps made the decisions too soon.
There is a giant – a larger than life person with an even larger capacity to love – in your future. Someone who takes care of the under-privileged and the weak, who will look after others. This person will look to you and love you, and you have the chance to embrace that love or hold it at an arm’s length. The decision will be yours.
Almost twenty-two years later, when Buri married her own gentle giant, she reflected on the Doi seer’s words, whispered into her ears on a frigid night in a tiny inn in the Lumuhu Valley when they were facing on things too frightening for a young girl to face – the least of it her own future. She assumed the woman had been speaking of Raoul, who was so larger than life, and who took care of misfits left and right, starting with her on the voyage home from Port Udayapur.
But it was too late – several years too late – when Buri realized that Raoul wasn’t the giant of her prophecy. The more she learned of Keladry of Mindelan, the more she knew how wrong she had been to assume it was Raoul.
Kel’s sense of duty, her dedication those who needed help, put Raoul’s to shame. He often did what was morally, right, but Kel almost always did what was right at all costs. She looked to Buri for guidance, and now, even with love. Buri had the choice to push her away, or pull her close – the decision was hers, the Doi woman said. So she took in her arms this larger-than-life woman, this Protector of the Small.