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rainbowfic2020-08-01 10:57 pm
shadowsong26) wrote in rainbowfic2020-08-01 10:57 pm
Hills of Iowa #5, Ruby #9
Name: shadowsong26
Story: How It Would End
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Hills of Iowa #5. And if we want a god we had to follow, follow him down., Ruby #9. boar's lungs and liver
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 5 Second Stage), photography, eraser (Generation Swap AU), novelty beads ("I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin), yarn
Word Count: 242
Rating:
Characters: Nida
Warnings: War/violence/genocide/espionage.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. This is an AU where Sorell is Kellom's son, rather than the other way around.
Nida didn't know how this would end.
Sometimes, she wasn't even sure there would ever be an end. Or, if there was, it wouldn't come in her lifetime. Or if it did...
Sorell was with her, even if it killed him. She hoped and prayed it wouldn't kill him, but even beyond the raw physical risk, of getting caught maneuvering or getting shot by a lucky guard when they freed prisoners...she could see how much his choices weighed on him. The noble traitor--a role he'd never wanted, a role that just might shatter him to pieces.
However much he believed in the rightness of their work.
And even if they did it, even if they made it through the blood and the horror--what they fought to keep her father-in-law from doing, and, sometimes, what they did to prevent it--what then?
What kind of world was waiting for them on the other side?
Nida couldn't imagine it.
Sometimes, after a failed mission, or in the wake of Sorell's nightmares, she wasn't so sure there was anything there at all. That there was another side to this. An after.
She would still fight for it, of course--for her city, for the captive mages, for her husband and her daughter, for the future they all deserved. Because there was right and there was wrong. Because they were all human, and they would not be broken.
She just wished she could actually believe that future existed.
Story: How It Would End
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Hills of Iowa #5. And if we want a god we had to follow, follow him down., Ruby #9. boar's lungs and liver
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 5 Second Stage), photography, eraser (Generation Swap AU), novelty beads ("I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin), yarn
Word Count: 242
Rating:
Characters: Nida
Warnings: War/violence/genocide/espionage.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. This is an AU where Sorell is Kellom's son, rather than the other way around.
Nida didn't know how this would end.
Sometimes, she wasn't even sure there would ever be an end. Or, if there was, it wouldn't come in her lifetime. Or if it did...
Sorell was with her, even if it killed him. She hoped and prayed it wouldn't kill him, but even beyond the raw physical risk, of getting caught maneuvering or getting shot by a lucky guard when they freed prisoners...she could see how much his choices weighed on him. The noble traitor--a role he'd never wanted, a role that just might shatter him to pieces.
However much he believed in the rightness of their work.
And even if they did it, even if they made it through the blood and the horror--what they fought to keep her father-in-law from doing, and, sometimes, what they did to prevent it--what then?
What kind of world was waiting for them on the other side?
Nida couldn't imagine it.
Sometimes, after a failed mission, or in the wake of Sorell's nightmares, she wasn't so sure there was anything there at all. That there was another side to this. An after.
She would still fight for it, of course--for her city, for the captive mages, for her husband and her daughter, for the future they all deserved. Because there was right and there was wrong. Because they were all human, and they would not be broken.
She just wished she could actually believe that future existed.
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Yeah. It's...one of the darkest ones I have, I think. Much more painful for all the focal characters. I haven't done much with the world outside Feredar, though; I probably should...
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1. "We Remain," Christina Aguilera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhS8IaM8Dj0
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