This is so late I'm sureno one will even know it is here, but I said I had something for this and here it is! I'm sure it'll get edited more and the second part will get longer.
Fandom: Original Word count: Erm... 1,123 to be exact. Title: Astraea's Song
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On the last day of my Astraean life I remember the sound of bells playing. Thousands of them, great and small, with voices as deep as my oceans once were and as high as the thin winds that sang through my mountains. The bells rang with the voices of my younger children, with their song of love and of mourning for what they had lost and for what I could no longer give them. But their song was also laced with hope and with desire to know what lay beyond my boundaries. I knew my younger children would endure their loss. They would embrace the challenges their new world would offer to them. They would cherish their bells and remember me in their songs but their lives would go on. They would lend their wisdom and their understanding to others and become wiser and more beautiful. My pride for the Lemari- my gentle Bell People- was without bounds.
With the bells of the Lemari I heard also the glorious voices of my cherished elder children. Voices that pierced my soul with the depth of their feeling. There was no joy or hope in the songs of the Mithic. Their cries of despair and of their devotion to me broke my heart. They who had sought in vain to change what must be; what is the fate of every world when the star to which we are irrevocably bound perishes. They could not accept my fate and toiled ceaselessly against it. They grew greater in power and deeper in the wisdom of the universe, but it could not avail them. I pleaded with my elder children to look to their own fates, but they would not listen.
Yet all of my pleas had not been vain. At the end of all my hope one among the Mithic listened and understood. He who would now save all of my people from sharing in my fate. He who learned more of my secrets than any other. He who discovered the secret pathways that lie hidden in the darkness between worlds. I heard his voice above all, singing of his love and his sorrow, but also of his determination. I heard the vow he made to me in his heart. He knew I would find life again and swore to return to me, no matter how long he had to seek for me. As I listened to his vow and felt his tears falling I knew that Fate would hear his words and would heed them.
Despite the heats of my parent star stealing away my oceans and my rivers. Despite my rains having long ago ceased to fall; upon the face of my beloved as he sang fell my last tears.
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Astraea's Song: Part one
Date: 2008-11-07 06:10 pm (UTC)Fandom: Original
Word count: Erm... 1,123 to be exact.
Title: Astraea's Song
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On the last day of my Astraean life I remember the sound of bells playing. Thousands of them, great and small, with voices as deep as my oceans once were and as high as the thin winds that sang through my mountains. The bells rang with the voices of my younger children, with their song of love and of mourning for what they had lost and for what I could no longer give them. But their song was also laced with hope and with desire to know what lay beyond my boundaries. I knew my younger children would endure their loss. They would embrace the challenges their new world would offer to them. They would cherish their bells and remember me in their songs but their lives would go on. They would lend their wisdom and their understanding to others and become wiser and more beautiful. My pride for the Lemari- my gentle Bell People- was without bounds.
With the bells of the Lemari I heard also the glorious voices of my cherished elder children. Voices that pierced my soul with the depth of their feeling. There was no joy or hope in the songs of the Mithic. Their cries of despair and of their devotion to me broke my heart. They who had sought in vain to change what must be; what is the fate of every world when the star to which we are irrevocably bound perishes. They could not accept my fate and toiled ceaselessly against it. They grew greater in power and deeper in the wisdom of the universe, but it could not avail them. I pleaded with my elder children to look to their own fates, but they would not listen.
Yet all of my pleas had not been vain. At the end of all my hope one among the Mithic listened and understood. He who would now save all of my people from sharing in my fate. He who learned more of my secrets than any other. He who discovered the secret pathways that lie hidden in the darkness between worlds. I heard his voice above all, singing of his love and his sorrow, but also of his determination. I heard the vow he made to me in his heart. He knew I would find life again and swore to return to me, no matter how long he had to seek for me. As I listened to his vow and felt his tears falling I knew that Fate would hear his words and would heed them.
Despite the heats of my parent star stealing away my oceans and my rivers. Despite my rains having long ago ceased to fall; upon the face of my beloved as he sang fell my last tears.