Blue Skies Prompt 16
Title: Detached
Author: Ranguvar42
Prompt: Blue Skies Prompt 16: I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
(Mad in Pursuit by Violette Leduc)
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland 2010
Character: Chessur/Cheshire Cat
Genre: Drama
Ratings/Warnings: K+, a somewhat serious Cat (and mentions my story Language of Love)
Word Count: 307
Summary: There are times when a Cat gets tired of being aloof and detached.
Apart from Absolem, he is the oldest creature living in Underland. He can remember things that happened two hundred years ago, things that will happen two hundred years from now (the Oraculum has nothing on him) and yet, he is not infallible. There are certain things he could not see happen. He can only see possible outcomes sometimes.
When the Horrendevush Day happens, he realizes that he had seen this coming, but had been helpless to do anything about it. Years later, he tries to tell Tarrant that what happened to his family wasn’t his fault, but he knows he’s wrong. He had shown his cowardly side and evaporated as the Jabberwock’s shadow blotted out the sun, concerned with only saving his skin, and severely damaging his friendship with the Mad Hatter.
When Alice comes back for the second time, he tells her he never gets involved in politics, but he has already agreed to serve as a spy for Mirana, and he has information that both Queens would give anything for-not the least is that the Knave, Ilosovic Stayne, is completely infatuated with a young woman he saw a year ago.
Through all of it, though he remains outwardly aloof, detached, and Mad-just as a proper Cat ought to.
After all, he thinks, he is a cat, and all cats walk by themselves.
Author: Ranguvar42
Prompt: Blue Skies Prompt 16: I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
(Mad in Pursuit by Violette Leduc)
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland 2010
Character: Chessur/Cheshire Cat
Genre: Drama
Ratings/Warnings: K+, a somewhat serious Cat (and mentions my story Language of Love)
Word Count: 307
Summary: There are times when a Cat gets tired of being aloof and detached.
Apart from Absolem, he is the oldest creature living in Underland. He can remember things that happened two hundred years ago, things that will happen two hundred years from now (the Oraculum has nothing on him) and yet, he is not infallible. There are certain things he could not see happen. He can only see possible outcomes sometimes.
When the Horrendevush Day happens, he realizes that he had seen this coming, but had been helpless to do anything about it. Years later, he tries to tell Tarrant that what happened to his family wasn’t his fault, but he knows he’s wrong. He had shown his cowardly side and evaporated as the Jabberwock’s shadow blotted out the sun, concerned with only saving his skin, and severely damaging his friendship with the Mad Hatter.
When Alice comes back for the second time, he tells her he never gets involved in politics, but he has already agreed to serve as a spy for Mirana, and he has information that both Queens would give anything for-not the least is that the Knave, Ilosovic Stayne, is completely infatuated with a young woman he saw a year ago.
Through all of it, though he remains outwardly aloof, detached, and Mad-just as a proper Cat ought to.
After all, he thinks, he is a cat, and all cats walk by themselves.