Theme 69: Pass Slowly
Today's theme:
Pass Slowly1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is going to be very ( Read more... )
Pass Slowly1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is going to be very ( Read more... )
Claim: Elfangor & family
Rating: G
Drabbles completed so far: 22/100
Nearly a year has passed since I last stood in this field. (In Earth years it's more like five.) It's all the same as I remember -- the grass, the sky, my hala fala on the hill's crest and the family scoop at its foot. The scoop that housed three, and then two -- and now three again.
The child stands before me, clumsy and long-legged, stalk eyes wiggling in what I believe meant to be a threatening manner and his bladeless stub of a tail waving over his head.
< Who are you? > he demands of me, his legs spread wide for balance he has yet to master. < Go away. > He is, any way you look at it, adorable.
(I wonder, for one moment, whether my son will be the same. In my head, I hear Loren laughing, as if it's the most ridiculous thing in the world, and of course he will be, Elfangor, he's yours, after all.)
I smile with my eyes, lowering my tail blade as a sign of peace. I am no threat to him, and never will be. < Don't you recognize me, little ( ... )
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