Wing BonesbratfarrarNovember 14 2007, 22:42:43 UTC
John first wishes for wings when he is eight, five hours into the twelve hour car trip to his grandparent's farm; his uncle's funeral is in two days, and the car is full of a brittle silence instead of his parents' usual banter.
He stares out the fingerprint-smudged window at the passing sky, and pictures himself with wings--not white ones, like angels are always drawn with, but the purple/green/black ones of the grackles that eat all the birdseed out of the bird feeder in the front yard. If he stares hard enough, wishes long enough, he can almost feel the wind in his face and the feathers on his back.
* His class studies magic when he's sixteen. All the labs this year are prefaced with don't try this outside of class, but he's alone in the house a lot--his dad's been promoted, and spends even more time on base than before--and.
And he wishes, sometimes. Most of the time.
So one Saturday he takes paper and ink and a handful of rich earth, does all the hand-cramping preparation, grits his teeth and pushes things into a different
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Re: Wing BonesbratfarrarNovember 15 2007, 03:13:57 UTC
Oh, I'm glad you liked it.
"Wistful" is a good word for John in this world--I really need to write more about him in Atlantis, where he's actually happy for the most part (despite the wraith et al.).
Re: Wing BonesbratfarrarNovember 16 2007, 22:15:27 UTC
Glad it continues to please. At some point I've really got to sit down and tell John's story properly, instead of doing it all piecemeal. Not that it will happen any time soon, of course.
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He stares out the fingerprint-smudged window at the passing sky, and pictures himself with wings--not white ones, like angels are always drawn with, but the purple/green/black ones of the grackles that eat all the birdseed out of the bird feeder in the front yard. If he stares hard enough, wishes long enough, he can almost feel the wind in his face and the feathers on his back.
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His class studies magic when he's sixteen. All the labs this year are prefaced with don't try this outside of class, but he's alone in the house a lot--his dad's been promoted, and spends even more time on base than before--and.
And he wishes, sometimes. Most of the time.
So one Saturday he takes paper and ink and a handful of rich earth, does all the hand-cramping preparation, grits his teeth and pushes things into a different ( ... )
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"Wistful" is a good word for John in this world--I really need to write more about him in Atlantis, where he's actually happy for the most part (despite the wraith et al.).
Your icon is amusingly appropriate.
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*looks at current schedule and sighs*
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