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[icaruslived]

They met in the afterlife, for neither of them were yet beyond living.

1. Intuition
She shone like the sun, quick-witted, fang-baring, aggressively loyal. He gleamed like the moon, purposeful, diamond-sharp, steadfast. They crashed into each other as colliding rivers, and they knew they were both travelling to the same ocean

Comments

[eternal_ot]

Marvelous..yet again..:) Have made it a habit of reading you..Good work! Loved it!

[icaruslived]

Thank you! That means a lot, that the stuff I spew would be so consistently liked :-D

[whipchick]

This is such an interesting story-sequence - reminds me a little in structure of Dante's Inferno.

[icaruslived]

But instead of descending through the hells, we're ascending through to heaven? :-P

I still need to read Inferno; that's one of the classics I've been meaning to read for the longest time...

Thank you for reading and enjoying!

[kickthehobbit]

Oh, Inferno is really good! The others are all right-a little boring, honestly-but it's goooooooooooood. Do it. :3

[icaruslived]

I will, absolutely! The list just doesn't get shorter, is all :P

[halfshellvenus]

Really unexpected in the general pool of stories... but not unexepected from you! This has the originality so many of your works do. :)

[icaruslived]

Well, I did pick "icarus lived" as my handle.That says something about a body :-P

Thank you for reading, and for your kind words!

[roina_arwen]

Great idea, loved them turning heaven into a paradise, and being able to shape firmament into whatever they needed!

[icaruslived]

Thank you very much, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[i_17bingo]

…firmament is built of metaphors.

This is a good observation.

What really worked for me was the almost complete lack of dialogue. It made the adventure more of an idea of an adventure, and that strengthened the ephemoral tone.

[icaruslived]

You can get away with that in a shorter piece :P

The first draft of this had the whole piece being a tale/dream the two of them were building together, like a nighttime campfire "and then we'll do this" sort of thing, so pretty explicitly just an idea of an adventure :P Good to see some of that feel stayed through!

Thank you for enjoying it!