Colour of the Day (11/12/2023); Tourmaline #16 [Starfall]

[thisbluespirit]

Name: and this is my only country
Story: Starfall
Colors: Tourmaline #16 (body/being); Colour of the Day - 11th Dec 2023 (POV)
Supplies and Styles: Miniature + Graffitti - 11 Years of Rainbowfic Pt 11 (Poetry "and this is my only country" - Safia Elhillo) + Finger Painting + Chiaroscuro + Nubs + Photography + Novelty Beads (11 Years - Space month "open".)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied injury/angst.
Notes: 1337 Starfall; Marran Delver.
Summary: The Governor falls.

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The Paths are open before you; the mountainside rolls down behind you. The creatures are there once more; impossible wolves and birds of snow. They breathe on you, and here it is again. Ice and despair and death that swallowed you once before, long ago, and here now through the Paths, the rift in the world where there is no past or present.

This is what does it—not teeth, claws, accusations. This is where you will always fall to in the end; the only country you never truly leave—back to the Mistlands, lost in the waste of winter.

Comments

[sinopiasaur]

A well-drawn word picture, drawing on the wealth of meaning and feeling that words can give.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks. <3

[sovay]

the only country you never truly leave

That is very good.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, thank you! <3

[bookblather]

fffffff this is. rude. The second person is very effective.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! XD

[persiflage_1]

Loving the 2nd person PoV (a truly underrated PoV!)

And it's surprising how painful it is, given how short it is.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! Drabbles should be sharp and pointy, so I'm glad this one was. XD