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Eden ([personal profile] wilderthan) wrote2009-12-27 12:08 am

Snippet - Reaching up to the sun

Fandom: The Dark is Rising
For: [livejournal.com profile] lil_1337's Christmas present
Quality: Barely checked
Characters: Will, Rhys
Notes: Because this is late, a proof it's coming. ♥


He snatches his senses back -- wondering, a little, at the familiar spark he'd found in the middle of that great ballooning feeling. He feels suddenly invigorated, restless, wild -- and it feels as if he can see the plants growing, sucking up that raw power and reaching up to the sun.

"Will?" Rhys asks again, taking his elbow. "You haven't been ill again, have you?"

"No, it's -- I don't know, I probably got up too fast." Will smiles, putting embarrassment into it, and all the tricks you learn so you don't get the blame, when you're the youngest in a big family.

Underneath that, his brain is racing, his heart is pounding.

"I think I should see Bran," he says, aloud. Rhys nods a little, smiles, the expression a little odd -- but maybe that's the wildness again, curling around everything.

"I think he'd like that. He's a queer one, he is," Rhys says, and then quickly, "Not that I don't like him. I'm not an idiot. I'm not like those fools down in Tywyn who think he'll set a curse on them. I like Bran, but he's..."

"He's something else," Will says, understanding better than Rhys could ever dream.

[identity profile] darthanne.livejournal.com 2009-12-27 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
I really like this, it raises more questions than it answers though. *waits patiently for more*

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2009-12-27 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
That was wonderful. I really like the connection between the feeling and needing to see Bran.

As the youngest of five girls this line, and all the tricks you learn so you don't get the blame, when you're the youngest in a big family struck a cord with me.

Thank you.

[identity profile] wilderthan.livejournal.com 2009-12-27 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll get the rest of it written sooooon. I didn't expect to spend quite so much of my life translating Anglo-Saxon texts, this holiday, which is why I didn't get it done.

[identity profile] wilderthan.livejournal.com 2009-12-27 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*grin* Workin' on it!

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2009-12-27 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs* It gives me something to look forward to in the new year. Life has a way of sneaking in and filling free time with things.