Logs:The Dream, The Song
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| RL Date: 18 September, 2015 |
| Who: Quint |
| Involves: High Reaches Weyr |
| Type: Vignette |
| What: High Reaches' newest Harper has a bad first night at the Weyr. |
| Where: Quint's Room, High Reaches Weyr |
| When: Day 9, Month 11, Turn 38 (Interval 10) |
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| He dreamed the dream again. He was a boy again, running, fleet of foot and unstoppable. He brushed past people, his fingers flying, and they felt nothing. He ran, and then he was in darkness, pressing all around him, unable to breathe. There was nowhere to run. He woke in a sweat. This was the penance he paid, three, four times a seven. He wondered if, in another fifteen Turns, it would be once or twice. Maybe, eventually, he would forget entirely? But he couldn't. Shouldn't. He swung out of bed, momentarily disoerientated in his new surroundings, before his gaze located the stand, and he reached for the gitar. The familiar strains of a song so well known to him sounded, his fingers seemed to fly over the strings of their own accord. High Reaches Weyr, he thought. So close to Crom. He strummed. Familiar tune, new lyrics: "Drawn, to the place of fears, drawn, and quartered. Seeking fate you'd thought you'd bucked, only to find out you're pretty well--" "Journeyman Quintus?" the voice rang out through the door. One of his new apprentices. "The class is waiting for you." The strings sang discordantly as his fingers slipped, and he winced. He returned the gitar, carefully, to its stand, and stood, taking a moment after he dressed. It was the boy that stood in the room, still, stuck in a moment. But it was the Harper that strode out confidently through the door. |
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Faryn (22:04, 18 September 2015 (PDT)) said...
Color me intrigued.
Squishy (22:10, 18 September 2015 (PDT)) said...
Likewise.
Alida (22:17, 18 September 2015 (PDT)) said...
"...only to find out you're pretty well--" That would-be rhyme might make Alida actually look twice. ^^
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