Post by incarnadine on Jun 23, 2009 23:16:49 GMT 10
Title: The Last Time
Rating: PG
Prompt: #5
Summary: Tortall heals.
The earth heals after it's fashion. Fissures cleave and buds rise from tangled knots of deadwood. Rainwashed green sward mantles the bruised, bare brown earth.
He rides at the head of the Royal Supply Train. Hollow-eyed orphans race along it, cheering, while their sunken-cheeked mothers look on, too weak to do else.
He can almost hear Roger's laughter.
Never again, he vows and his fingers clench against the shimmering violet stone that fits into his palm.
A/N: Believe it or not, I didn't steal the idea from aniloverl! Coincidences can be really freaky sometimes.
Rating: PG
Prompt: #5
Summary: Tortall heals.
The earth heals after it's fashion. Fissures cleave and buds rise from tangled knots of deadwood. Rainwashed green sward mantles the bruised, bare brown earth.
He rides at the head of the Royal Supply Train. Hollow-eyed orphans race along it, cheering, while their sunken-cheeked mothers look on, too weak to do else.
He can almost hear Roger's laughter.
Never again, he vows and his fingers clench against the shimmering violet stone that fits into his palm.
A/N: Believe it or not, I didn't steal the idea from aniloverl! Coincidences can be really freaky sometimes.
I love the last line. 
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!