Bubblegum Pink 14, Electric Purple 8: Do You See It?

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Do You See It?
Story: In the Heart - Fairy Tale AU
Colors: Bubblegum pink 14 (Time for a Treat), electric purple 8 (Your optimistic eyes/Seem like paradise/To someone like me/I want to take you/In my arms/Forgetting all I couldn't do today (Depeche Mode- Black Celebration)) with shipwreck_light's paint-by-numbers (You can't rely on other people to save you. Sometimes, you're all you have.),
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, canvas (Lars is about five for most of this), yarn (the Big Dipper), brush (transpire), glitter (Moon and the Sky, Jay-Z), eraser (Fairy Tale AU), novelty beads (Well, he's not a panda, but...).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: It never occured to him to question home.
Warnings: none
Notes: Saw the yarn and Lars spoke up.


"Do you see it?" Papa asks, and he nods, fascinated. "That's the North Star. If you're ever lost, that is how you get home."

"I find the North Star," he says, and Papa nods, smiles.

"You find the North Star and you follow it north, as far as you can go. We will find you, my son. Go north, and you will always come home in the end."

The memory burns now, a sharp-edged open wound where that child's faith once lay. He never once questioned what home was, then.

Now he finds the North Star, and turns resolutely south.

Comments

[isana]

Oh, lord. That contrast between the warm childhood memory and his loss of home in the present hurts real sharp.

[finch]

Oh, that ending is so sharp.

[shipwreck_light]

And that's the second time this afternoon you made me go whump.

But the art in your whump.

Makes it all worth it.

[bookblather]

Suffer! Muahahahahahaha!

I mean. Ahem.

Thank you!

[bookblather]

Thank you! I meant for that, and it's nice to see it worked.

[bookblather]

Artistic whump! Yes, I like this concept. Thank you!