Post by mistrali on Jan 31, 2013 15:20:43 GMT 10
Title: The Final Sacrifice
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #55 Remembrance
Summary:Crane remembers an old friend.
Warnings: Character death, dark themes
Other Notes: Written as part of my Lark/Crane/Rosethorn five-sentence series, Roll Away Your Stone, for the prompt 'take the fall'.
Title from Florence and the Machine's song "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)".
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The Final Sacrifice
All of Discipline cottage, even Niko, when he is there, gathers to hear Lark's tales of dancing and tumbling with her troupe abroad: in five minutes Glaki is almost vibrating in her seat with excitement at Lark's stories of the players' antics, and even Evvy is drawn out of her sulks or memories to ask questions; Comas simply listens, his keen eyes alight, and dreams of seeing the wonders she describes for himself.
Once, when Crane is there, she talks of travelling over the Silk Cradle, to Yanjing, for a six-month stint. Crane remembers morning cups of green tea shared with Mountainstrider and Rosethorn, and the stories the older mage told him of life in Saijien, a medium-sized province. Despite the death, illness and pain of their subjects during that first essence-testing, those were memorable days for the precious few hours of peace and companionship they were able to savour amid the grief.
It was Mountainstrider's death, a sacrifice which ended the struggle to cure breakbone fever, that rekindled Rosethorn and Crane's determination, and with it a love for each other that is prickly as Yanjingyi thorn-bamboo and has proven just as enduring.
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #55 Remembrance
Summary:Crane remembers an old friend.
Warnings: Character death, dark themes
Other Notes: Written as part of my Lark/Crane/Rosethorn five-sentence series, Roll Away Your Stone, for the prompt 'take the fall'.
Title from Florence and the Machine's song "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)".
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The Final Sacrifice
All of Discipline cottage, even Niko, when he is there, gathers to hear Lark's tales of dancing and tumbling with her troupe abroad: in five minutes Glaki is almost vibrating in her seat with excitement at Lark's stories of the players' antics, and even Evvy is drawn out of her sulks or memories to ask questions; Comas simply listens, his keen eyes alight, and dreams of seeing the wonders she describes for himself.
Once, when Crane is there, she talks of travelling over the Silk Cradle, to Yanjing, for a six-month stint. Crane remembers morning cups of green tea shared with Mountainstrider and Rosethorn, and the stories the older mage told him of life in Saijien, a medium-sized province. Despite the death, illness and pain of their subjects during that first essence-testing, those were memorable days for the precious few hours of peace and companionship they were able to savour amid the grief.
It was Mountainstrider's death, a sacrifice which ended the struggle to cure breakbone fever, that rekindled Rosethorn and Crane's determination, and with it a love for each other that is prickly as Yanjingyi thorn-bamboo and has proven just as enduring.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!