Challenge 24: Superstition
Two linked drabbles.
Title: Tradition and Legend
Summary: Modern twists on an early belief; novel heroes of an ancient myth.
Genres: General, Drama, Romance
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Holly/Artemis
Warning: Mention of character death (Neiklot)
Word count: 100 words each
Written for:
af100: Superstition;
18coda: cadence (Neiklot only);
18coda: ostinato (Heretic only); 12LH fishwish: abandonment of the Underground (Neiklot only)
Points to: Fic Challenge Addicts Anonymous
Cookies if you know the name of the character who says, “Neiklot?”
EDIT: can't get lj-cut to work. Go to reply to read.
Heretic
Neither has ever liked convention anyway.
He gives a specific, unorthodox forging request.
Everyone else expected elaborateness; instead it looks plain and unremarkable.
She doesn’t mind either the “fraternising with the People’s enemy” or “defacement of the People’s currency” charge.
He tells her of the ancient human belief in the vena amoris running from the fourth finger to the heart-“Something else you stole from us,” she laughs.
A custom obeyed by her People as well as his...
Follow your heart...
It is slipped onto her trigger finger instead.
Her only regret is that it covers the scar it honours.
Neiklot
The Elf waits and watches over him, the Man who wills to prove himself worthy of her.
When the chance of ultimate Power is in his hand, he thinks of her as he rejects the Shadow.
Victory leads to sorrow...
He watches the ancient tree, knowing that he does not have much longer to wait for her.
The twilit Haven is grey, until she closes her eyes to it for the last time.
“...joy, for a while.”
He asks her if she will return to her People.
When Hope is dead, she watches the stars as she waits to die.
Title: Tradition and Legend
Summary: Modern twists on an early belief; novel heroes of an ancient myth.
Genres: General, Drama, Romance
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Holly/Artemis
Warning: Mention of character death (Neiklot)
Word count: 100 words each
Written for:
af100: Superstition;
18coda: cadence (Neiklot only);
18coda: ostinato (Heretic only); 12LH fishwish: abandonment of the Underground (Neiklot only)
Points to: Fic Challenge Addicts Anonymous
Cookies if you know the name of the character who says, “Neiklot?”
EDIT: can't get lj-cut to work. Go to reply to read.
Heretic
Neither has ever liked convention anyway.
He gives a specific, unorthodox forging request.
Everyone else expected elaborateness; instead it looks plain and unremarkable.
She doesn’t mind either the “fraternising with the People’s enemy” or “defacement of the People’s currency” charge.
He tells her of the ancient human belief in the vena amoris running from the fourth finger to the heart-“Something else you stole from us,” she laughs.
A custom obeyed by her People as well as his...
Follow your heart...
It is slipped onto her trigger finger instead.
Her only regret is that it covers the scar it honours.
Neiklot
The Elf waits and watches over him, the Man who wills to prove himself worthy of her.
When the chance of ultimate Power is in his hand, he thinks of her as he rejects the Shadow.
Victory leads to sorrow...
He watches the ancient tree, knowing that he does not have much longer to wait for her.
The twilit Haven is grey, until she closes her eyes to it for the last time.
“...joy, for a while.”
He asks her if she will return to her People.
When Hope is dead, she watches the stars as she waits to die.