mithrigil did this last year, and I'm Shamelessly Copying this year, as entertainment as I finish up edits on the last two pieces before I belong to my Sweet Charity winners. :D
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The world is full of water, has always been full of water; everything is muted and mutable through that veil. Argilla cannot taste the water she swims in; it simply is.
So it should be funny (but in the underwater world she doesn’t know humor) that she draws her first breath with a gasp, looking at eyes grey as the omnipresent rain, hair green as the nonexistant sea.
The rain keeps falling, and she doesn’t know what the wetness in her eyes and the salt on her mouth mean, but she knows: she can’t breathe water any longer.
Hoho! Glad to see this surfacing again!
DDS, frogs?
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Have a preference for characters, or my choice?
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I think I will reprise this one this year as well.
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You get a slightly oblique one:
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Metamorphosis
The world is full of water, has always been full of water; everything is muted and mutable through that veil. Argilla cannot taste the water she swims in; it simply is.
So it should be funny (but in the underwater world she doesn’t know humor) that she draws her first breath with a gasp, looking at eyes grey as the omnipresent rain, hair green as the nonexistant sea.
The rain keeps falling, and she doesn’t know what the wetness in her eyes and the salt on her mouth mean, but she knows: she can’t breathe water any longer.
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