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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2011 8:06:24 GMT 10
Title: Meaning Number Two (of Joy) Rating: PG Word Count: 235 Pairing: Crane/Rosethorn Round/Fight: 1/F Summary: Rosethorn can't be happier.
Isas was somewhere across the ocean and she couldn't be any happier.
He was visiting the family who, he had admitted, would probably do quite a bit to keep him from returning and taking his vows. He was beyond the reach of magic, too far away for the whispering-bright intimacy that stretched between two young green mages. He could be lost to her forever.
Niva could barely smile any more than she did now into her musty tome of Endless Ocean Island herb extract diagrams.
Now she had time to spend quietly among the small patch of herbs she cultivated just beyond Lightsbridge's ancient walls. Now she didn't have to smolder over cyclic, uncompromising arguments that tore classrooms with their ferocity. Now her lips and tongue and mouth were not sore.
She couldn't be happier. Really.
She couldn't be any happier, because joy had become too fleeting to find; she couldn't be any happier because Niva didn't miss that arrogant stick, not at all.
She couldn't be any happier because every time she tried to smile, just out of the blue, her lips seemed to shape a terrible lie. Her books were distractions and her plants fragile solitude from the rest of the world.
She couldn't be any happier, but she couldn't be any sadder, either, because both felt the same when Isas visited his family and she was trapped, alone, in lifeless, gray Lightsbridge.
QC by: journeycat
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sidonie
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Post by sidonie on Mar 30, 2011 8:12:34 GMT 10
Oh, this is gorgeous! I love how it changes to reveal her true feelings, and Isas warning that his family might not want him to take his vows feels very real. Wonderful fic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2011 9:49:33 GMT 10
Thanks -- that deceptive narrator was exactly what I was going for. And Rosethorn always seemed so bitter about what Lightbridge did to Crane that I couldn't resist.
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Post by Kit on Mar 30, 2011 12:17:13 GMT 10
Oh, I love this. Particularly Rosethorn at "lifeless, gray Lightsbridge." Her frustration is palpable. Brilliantly done.
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