Ficlet: A World of Gold

[white_cross_b]

Title: A World of Gold
Prompt: Death
Fandom: Saiyuki
Beta: whymzycal

He lived in a world of dreams, neither seeing nor hearing, suspended between life and death. Someone came by from time to time to bathe him, to comb out his long brown hair while it dried, pinning it with reverence high atop his head as small wisps escaped to frame the delicate features of

Comments

[7veilsphaedra]

Lovely! I figured out who it was in the first paragraph. You didn't even need to end it with the whisper.

We are all a little bit in love with "gentle wild things" I think.

[white_cross_b]

Thanks, Phae!

That is so true, and there's nothing to do for it but accept it.

[white_cross_b]

Thank you! I'm waiting for poor little Nataku to wake up and kick some ass, but I'm sure that's a long time coming. I love him so much.

[a_non_ah_mouse]

"He dreamed of secret smiles and a time when maybe, just maybe, he had fallen a little in love with a gentle wild thing who had golden eyes and brought him flowers from the garden -- whose sense of mischief had matched his own."
Wow. Absolutely beautiful- this sentence just dances with fluidity and description. And it gives me new ideas which is always appreciated.
Why is he bleary-out? Do tell!