Muse
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Junior Overlord
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Post by Muse on May 18, 2013 13:04:22 GMT 10
Title: The Voice Paradox III. Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 212 Pairing: Alanna/Jonathan Round/Fight: 2A Summary: Paradox Prompt part 3: Jon is and is not the Voice. The clamor rises in him. He is and is not, and it is glorious. Warning: Canon-character death.
“I am, and I’m not, and it is glorious.”
Alanna’s hands are fast and frantic on him, and Jon is lying in the sand. It doesn’t bother him; crisp, cool grains sliding into place under him and cradling him close to the heart of the desert.
Above him and away, there is still a rim of blue fire on the Bazhir, and Jon looks into Ali Mukhtab’s eyes and grins.
“We are.”
There is nothing—and everything—and Alanna looks alarmed when he tells her this.
“Jon,” she holds his head gently, hands on the sides of his face. She tilts his head so she can see him straight on and looks deep into his eyes. “Jon, snap out of it!”
He’s drowning in violets and voices.
It’s wonderful and maddening. Something rises in him, growing in his chest and bubbling, popping like tiny bubbles of champagne against his throat and he fights the urge to let it burst out.
Would it be a shout of laughter or a scream?
He is so many people. He grins at Alanna. “There are four hundred and fifteen of me.”
Her face is dead white above him—he hasn’t moved, and neither has Ali Muhktab—and Jon lives four hundred and fifteen lives at once.
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housewife
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Post by housewife on Jun 5, 2013 17:47:37 GMT 10
Have I mentioned your writing is beautiful? I like Jonathan's character here.
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