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Post by Tamari on Aug 14, 2012 7:53:55 GMT 10
Title: Ghost Rating: PG Team: Emelan Prompt: ‘What have you known of loss, that makes you different from other men?' – Gilgamesh Word Count: 165 Summary (and any Warnings): The truth hurts. Briar and Tris, and some books.
They’re sprawled out on the floor, legs casually entwined, books piled around them. Briar is yawning and Tris is becoming exasperated.
“I taught you to read! What happened?”
“Well, I don’t know, Coppercurls,” Briar says, resting on his elbow. “There isn’t much time for readin’ in a war, is there?”
Tris rolls her eyes at the history book and closes it, sliding it away from her outstretched arm. “No, there isn’t, but you haven’t been in a war for years now.” Her tone is ever-so-slightly biting. It would be sharper, but she’s been working on keeping her temper.
“It feels like yesterday,” Briar says. He traces the grain of the wood floor and doesn’t look in her gray eyes.
What have you known of loss, that makes you different from other men? That makes you different from me, from us? she asks silently.
He sighs aloud. Nothing.
She twists around and rubs his shoulder. “It’s hard, I know.”
She isn’t talking about reading, for once.
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Post by Kris11 on Aug 14, 2012 8:44:13 GMT 10
Love it. They are perhaps my favourite two together, and you capture their dynamic here perfectly, with them knowing each other and understanding each other when it gets right down to it, even if they are exasperating and stubborn and sarcastic with each other leading up to the moment that matters. Loved the use of the quote, too.
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