Muse
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Post by Muse on May 18, 2013 4:55:06 GMT 10
Title: The Voice Paradox I. Rating: PG Word Count:204 Pairing: Alanna/Jonathan Round/Fight: 2A Summary: Paradox Prompt part 1: Jon is the Voice. It takes adjustment, and Jon adjusts in two.
He learns to live with the sound of hundreds of other voices in his head.
They talk, not always to him, but he doesn’t mind. They show him things he has never seen, places he will never go, people he will never meet.
In the space of his mind, both infinitely vast and terrifyingly small, he is free.
For anyone else this probably would have been enough to be diagnosed insane; Jon wonders about this sometimes, in the Moment when he’s everyone but himself.
Alanna peers into his eyes, then, when he comes back to himself. She doesn’t say anything, and for long moments he blinks, feeling the phantom heat of sand through the soles of his feet while twilight breezes steal beneath the burnoose that billows around him.
He blinks, and its gone.
Alanna doesn’t say anything to him, in those in between moments when he is both here and there. It’s never awkward, although sometimes Jon sees the outlines of shaman’s robes blowing around Alanna as the Moment fades away from him and he returns solidly to himself, Jonathan-as-King.
He wonders if he looks different; if something fades out of him and leaves him, desert-less and chilled under the grey Northern sky.
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housewife
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Post by housewife on Jun 5, 2013 17:45:48 GMT 10
I love this, your writing is so evocative and absolutely gorgeous. Ooh, and I love the idea of him seeing shaman's robes on Alanna. It's odd, also, to think of Jonathan lacking and missing the desert, but that last picture is so sparse.
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