Post by Shhasow on Mar 20, 2011 8:03:22 GMT 10
Title: Voice Lessons (16)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 274
Pairing: Jon/Zahir
Round/Fight: 1/A
Summary: Zahir finally understands and empathizes. Rating for allusion to sex.
Chapter Fifteen
Even though Zahir had full possession of the horrors that awaited him as Voice, he decided to continue - or rather, begin - his training. Having experienced a glimpse of the true burden that awaited, that of terrible foreknowledge, Zahir undertook it soberly.
It was only now that the reasons for Jon’s behavior became clear.
In silence, Zahir felt dark tendrils of unnatural thoughts and truths linger. It was worse around people, for as his unconscious thoughts turned to them, so did his sleeping mind, and truths that he never wanted to know flooded his mind. Somehow, whenever he was around his knight-master, his mind fell silent. Jon told him it was because their awoken minds found another, and so they had lots of mindsex until they fell asleep, exhausted. Zahir doubted this explanation. He attributed the phenomena to the minds respecting each other’s privacy.
In solitude, he could control himself better, and Jon assured him that eventually he’d have iron-clad control. It was easier for Zahir when he preoccupied himself, whether by training or by reading, or if he removed himself from people and sat alone. Jon’s predilection for perching on rooftops was immediately understandable, and Zahir quickly gained a fondness for the slippery tiles and the slight ever-present danger that both sharpened his mind and inexplicably allowed him to relax.
Since his adventure with the Riders, people could often find their monarch and his squire seated silently on the palace roof. Sometimes they gazed into the distance. Sometimes they watched the slow progression of the sun and the stars.
Zahir had a new-found appreciation for bizarre facts that could hold his attention.
QC by: journeycat
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 274
Pairing: Jon/Zahir
Round/Fight: 1/A
Summary: Zahir finally understands and empathizes. Rating for allusion to sex.
Chapter Fifteen
Even though Zahir had full possession of the horrors that awaited him as Voice, he decided to continue - or rather, begin - his training. Having experienced a glimpse of the true burden that awaited, that of terrible foreknowledge, Zahir undertook it soberly.
It was only now that the reasons for Jon’s behavior became clear.
In silence, Zahir felt dark tendrils of unnatural thoughts and truths linger. It was worse around people, for as his unconscious thoughts turned to them, so did his sleeping mind, and truths that he never wanted to know flooded his mind. Somehow, whenever he was around his knight-master, his mind fell silent. Jon told him it was because their awoken minds found another, and so they had lots of mindsex until they fell asleep, exhausted. Zahir doubted this explanation. He attributed the phenomena to the minds respecting each other’s privacy.
In solitude, he could control himself better, and Jon assured him that eventually he’d have iron-clad control. It was easier for Zahir when he preoccupied himself, whether by training or by reading, or if he removed himself from people and sat alone. Jon’s predilection for perching on rooftops was immediately understandable, and Zahir quickly gained a fondness for the slippery tiles and the slight ever-present danger that both sharpened his mind and inexplicably allowed him to relax.
Since his adventure with the Riders, people could often find their monarch and his squire seated silently on the palace roof. Sometimes they gazed into the distance. Sometimes they watched the slow progression of the sun and the stars.
Zahir had a new-found appreciation for bizarre facts that could hold his attention.
QC by: journeycat