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Post by mistrali on Apr 16, 2013 2:29:02 GMT 10
Title: Your Own Land Rating: PG-13 for dark themes Word Count: 188 Warnings: PTSD Summary: Rosethorn thinks Lark and Crane don't notice how Gyongxi affects her. Pairing: Lark/Crane/Rosethorn Fight: 1/B Other Notes: Written for the prompt 'stretching the truth' in my LCR five-sentence series, Roll Away Your Stone. Title from Keane's "Everybody's Changing".
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Your Own Land
Rosethorn doesn't talk about Gyongxi - not to Crane, who keeps looking at her as if she'll break, or to Lark, whose worry is evident in every movement.
She tells them and Briar that the mind-healer is helping: it's not a lie, after all. There's no reason for Lark to know how a word can make her flinch and flashes of memory play tricks on her at the oddest, happiest moments, or for Crane to hear about the pervasive muck and casual brutality of fighting.
Neither he nor Lark has much knowledge of war and its aftereffects; for all Crane's known Rosethorn for twenty years, for all she spends every waking moment with Lark, and for all she's not stupid enough to assume Gyongxi hasn't left its scars, she doesn't think they see how it's eroding her.
They prove her wrong in small ways, with gestures as insidious as the thoughts in her head - conversations over cups of tea, a squeeze of the hand, a favourite meal, a new variety of flower, a few kisses - that are less cathartic but more affirming than all the mind-healer's weeks of work.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 18:47:06 GMT 10
Oh. Rosethorn. I'm glad she has Crane and Lark around.
This is gorgeous.
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Post by mistrali on Apr 17, 2013 8:06:48 GMT 10
Oh. Rosethorn. I'm glad she has Crane and Lark around. This is gorgeous. Thank you. Thanks for reviewing everything in this series, too - it's always good to hear what people think!
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Post by Elsceetaria on Apr 18, 2013 3:05:24 GMT 10
OOh this is amazing. I love good PTSD fic, and this is simply wonderful. Mind healers can do amazing things, but it isn't a magic cure. Love, however, is also so critical.
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Post by Muse on Jun 8, 2013 13:54:22 GMT 10
There's something about "a new variety of flower" being something so healing, but knowing Crane and Rosethorn, the action is so much more than the words, and it's wonderful!
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