I got to work only to discover someone had decided it would be a clever idea to run into an electric pole on Coburg and thus for half an hour we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off dealing with it. And then the front door decided it was obviously midnight after the power came back on
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I need a title that's something about younger sons and questing, or about the moon, or about nursery rhymes and obligation and taking care of people. Pretentious weirdness points a plus.
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"I see the moon,And the moon sees me;God bless the moon,And God bless me." http://www.bartleby.com/66/23/62423.html
"The moon, the anchorless, Moon go swerving, Down at the earth for a catastrophic kiss." http://www.bartleby.com/66/67/34167.html
"I sink back shuddering from the quest.Earth being so good, would Heaven seem best?" http://www.bartleby.com/66/87/8887.html
"I follow up the quest Despite of Day and Night and Death and Hell." http://www.bartleby.com/100/453.132.html
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I think I'm going with the tried and true "make shit up" route. Because I don't know where to track down the exact thing in my head, which quite possibly exists only there.
When he reaches the door to the boys' room, he hears someone speaking inside, low and hypnotic -- which is strange; he'd thought that only Lazuli and Pearl should be in there, and Pearl's language is much harsher than Casmilan, full of harsh choppy sounds that he would surely recognize even at a distance.
A moment later, he realizes that he's hearing his brother speak to someone else for the first time in eleven years.
"...almost like you're from the moon, you know, like in the story -- the first warrior bore the golden lances of the sun, and his hair shone bright as sunlight on the harvest. That's like Topaz. And then there's you, the second warrior, with the silver arrows of the moon, and hair as pale as spider silk."
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mewmewmewmew!
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