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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 4, 2010 2:58:14 GMT 10
Title: Larger than Life Rating: R Length: 133 words Competitor: Uline of Hannalof Round/Fight: 1/H Summary: A bad day at New Hope. A really bad day.
Warning: Angst. Depression. Possibly trigger-y.
Later Uline will notice the door was locked. Jump was nowhere to be found. The hearth was cold on a bitter November morning.
Later she will remember Kel's glaive, carelessly dropped on the bedroom floor.
Later she will take both the Queenscove healers to task: one for supplying the potion, “for emergencies;” the other for describing its many uses and the dosage required for each.
Later she will find the letter. The list of – mostly imagined – personal failings. The endless apologies.
Later she will wonder how her Lady Knight, always strong, always larger than life, can see so much failure in herself.
That day, she enters the room just in time to stop Kel from swallowing the entire contents of the vial. That day, she can only ask, “Why?”
Note: I've always thought Kel was insanely hard on herself. I just found out someone I adore has issues I never imagined. This is the result.
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Post by max on Feb 4, 2010 7:49:24 GMT 10
Well written, but I can't seem to look at this like any other drabble/oneshot/contest entry. It... cuts terribly close to the bone.
I'm sorry for what you and yours are going through. <3 Max
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Post by kiz on Feb 4, 2010 8:01:48 GMT 10
This was powerful. Very to the point, which I think is exactly what it needed to be. I hope that writing a drabble helped you vent out at least a tiny bit of what you are going through right now.
And I am so sorry, and hope that things work out.
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 4, 2010 8:12:59 GMT 10
Max, thank you. I'm glad it worked, in a literary sense.
On the personal side, it's something long over, though I only just found out about it. I wanted to offer some explanation, in case all the emotion behind this drabble-ish comes through for the reader.
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 4, 2010 10:11:28 GMT 10
Kiz, thank you, too! I must have been replying at the same time you were!
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