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Post by stardustrial on Apr 12, 2013 13:05:07 GMT 10
Title: Choice Rating: PG Word Count: 205 Pairing: Kalasin/Kaddar Round/Fight: 1/A Summary: Kalasin is unhappy in Carthak
You are going to be happy again, he whispers, and you find yourself inclined to believe him because the alternative is so damn awful. After all, it’s been such a long time since you were – joyful, but not quite that either, because you have found joy, in court politics and trade agreements and horse rides and embroidery and rough tumbles beneath the sheets, spices and good wine and baths and boredom, and you’re tired, so damn tired of being what your parents sculpted you into.
You aren’t a damsel, you snap, one night when he’s being particularly delicate and coy. And you aren’t in distress either. There aren’t even any dragons, damn it, except the ones created from sand and dust. You don’t want to be rescued. Eventually, you start to believe yourself.
Call it life, or happiness. Someone stupid might call it love, but however you slice it, your parents have one another, and more importantly, they have Tortall, and that’s good enough for them, isn’t it? Isn’t it?
You are going to be happy again.
You have a choice. He is lying, or you believe him. It’s a bit of both, of course, but you’ll be damned if you will ever admit it.
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Muse
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Post by Muse on Apr 17, 2013 2:20:47 GMT 10
I like the repetition of the first line, and how you follow up with a last line that feels a bit like silk over steel...pretty and descriptive, but it packs the power of an emotional punch to the gut
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Post by Griff on Jun 7, 2013 10:05:04 GMT 10
I love that Kally is so stubborn that she initially rebuffs his attempts at kindness as a sort of insult - She can make HERSELF happy, sir!
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Post by mistrali on Jun 7, 2013 10:58:25 GMT 10
I like the contradiction in this, and I like how Kally is so caught between her ideal of being happy and not quite believing that she ever will be, and wanting and yet not quite wanting happiness with Kaddar because it means 'settling', in her mind, for her parents' idea of her.
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