Non-challenge
Title: Ghosts
Author:
sparrow779
Rating: G
Character(s): Robin
Word Count: 178
Summary: Originally posted in my FFN collection of drabbles, "Candles in the Dark"
At night, she sits alone, surrounded by ghosts. They drift before her, eyes beseeching, lips forming soundless words, but she can hear the screams anyway. Their anguish, their fear, their pain...it all resonates with her. She sometimes wonders if her father meant her to bear this too. If he would have created her had he known how sensitive she'd be to the presence of other witches, to their echoes...But she does exist.
And she exists to bring them peace, they tell her this. They beg it of her, as do the living Witches she encounters. They know her for what she is - her power is unmistakable. And they all want the same thing. She wants it too.
But she's lost, herself, in a world that confuses and frightens her as it fascinates her. She cannot free them until she has truly freed herself, and for that...she must do the thing she knows Amon worries most about. She must open herself to her Craft. And if the worst should happen...she knows there will be friends among the ghosts.
Author:
sparrow779
Rating: G
Character(s): Robin
Word Count: 178
Summary: Originally posted in my FFN collection of drabbles, "Candles in the Dark"
At night, she sits alone, surrounded by ghosts. They drift before her, eyes beseeching, lips forming soundless words, but she can hear the screams anyway. Their anguish, their fear, their pain...it all resonates with her. She sometimes wonders if her father meant her to bear this too. If he would have created her had he known how sensitive she'd be to the presence of other witches, to their echoes...But she does exist.
And she exists to bring them peace, they tell her this. They beg it of her, as do the living Witches she encounters. They know her for what she is - her power is unmistakable. And they all want the same thing. She wants it too.
But she's lost, herself, in a world that confuses and frightens her as it fascinates her. She cannot free them until she has truly freed herself, and for that...she must do the thing she knows Amon worries most about. She must open herself to her Craft. And if the worst should happen...she knows there will be friends among the ghosts.