Post by wordy on Mar 14, 2013 12:08:47 GMT 10
Title: no man's land
Rating: PG
Prompt: #80 crossroads
Summary: A Battle Magic scene.
The wind stirs up a wall of dust. Briar wipes his face on the sleeve of his shirt, but everything still feels gritty, like he can't get clean. He doesn't look at Evvy. Keeps a firm grip on her hand.
Rosethorn is looking back the way they have come, hair tousling lightly in the wind.
"We have to go back," he croaks out, finally. We have to go back. Don't we?
The ground is barren, empty. Something smooth and small touches the back of his hand and he looks down, at Evvy slipping a pebble between their clasped hands, then squeezing tightly again. He's never seen her cry before, and the dirty tear-tracks on her cheeks look foreign.
They have nothing to keep them going. Everything abandoned. He looks to Rosethorn again, but she looks just as empty as he feels, stripped to the bone, scattered to the wind. They can't stay here, the elements wearing them down, but some small, selfish part of him wishes that they could. Just a little longer.
Rating: PG
Prompt: #80 crossroads
Summary: A Battle Magic scene.
The wind stirs up a wall of dust. Briar wipes his face on the sleeve of his shirt, but everything still feels gritty, like he can't get clean. He doesn't look at Evvy. Keeps a firm grip on her hand.
Rosethorn is looking back the way they have come, hair tousling lightly in the wind.
"We have to go back," he croaks out, finally. We have to go back. Don't we?
The ground is barren, empty. Something smooth and small touches the back of his hand and he looks down, at Evvy slipping a pebble between their clasped hands, then squeezing tightly again. He's never seen her cry before, and the dirty tear-tracks on her cheeks look foreign.
They have nothing to keep them going. Everything abandoned. He looks to Rosethorn again, but she looks just as empty as he feels, stripped to the bone, scattered to the wind. They can't stay here, the elements wearing them down, but some small, selfish part of him wishes that they could. Just a little longer.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!