Thunder and Lightning Challenge: Sensorium

[joanwilder]

Title: Sensorium
Author: joanwilder (RaeWhit)
Words: 100
Challenge: # 185 Thunder and Lightning.

It'd been growing, this new ability to sense things before he saw them. He'd started to notice it after the Christmas hols, after everything had finally settled, after he'd had a chance to catch his breath and come to terms with how old he was at eleven

Comments

[bronze_ribbons]

Lovely! The phrase "how old he was at eleven" is fabulous, and the sensuality of the second paragraph - mmm.

[joanwilder]

Thanks. I've wondered what it must feel like, to be that old and young at the same time.

[sistermagpie]

I echo the above comment with yummm! That made my skin prickle, and the lightning's also a nice metaphor for the power inside Will himself.

[joanwilder]

Skin prickling is a good review. :) Thanks.

[genarti]

Oh, I really love this. This is a lovely encapsulation of an Old One's real power -- not generating lightning, though they probably could, but sensing all the undercurrents of timing and power and sparks struck in the atmosphere -- and of Will at eleven and ancient.

[joanwilder]

Eleven and ancient, exactly. Connectedness is what I was going for. Thanks!