Poem: "Settling"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here is the second freebie of the session, courtesy of new prompter DW user Breezeshadow.  This poem belongs to the Schrodinger's Heroes project, which you can explore further on the menu page.  It's a crossover with His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, riffing on daemon as the animal shape of a person's soul.  This also fills the "Adulthood"

Comments

[janetmiles]

Oh, this is amazing and charming and wonderful and I love the floating octopus.

[siege]

*laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's wonderful.

I actually did think of a squid first, because they're smart and have tentacles, but then I came across that octopus as the smartest cephalopod.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy to hear that. I really had fun with it.

I liked the concept of daemons as visible souls, so it was an interesting character exercise. Schrodinger was a surprise -- I'd always thought of him as Alex's daemon in that context. But then he went and was something even stranger.