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Title: Superstition
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses, Isael Sabaey
Prompt: 013 “Yellow”
Word Count: 159
Rating: G
Notes: He’s always hated the number thirteen. He no longer remembers why.
He used to think that lies had a shape, colours of their own--yet another thing he lost, when Ruadhan died. He can remember that he’d once had a spectrum of colours for lies, but he can no longer put names to the spectrum, no longer define a lie by the colour it calls to his mind. So yellow (not gold, not ochre, but a bright blinding thing found by staring at the sun or in the stripes of poisonous snakes) became a colour of warning, a colour of danger, without any reasoning behind it.
He’d resisted the urge to paint thirteen thin yellow stripes on a white remembrance candle. Those who knew already would find nothing new here, and it would be a sharp, incomprehensible thing to those who did not. So the candle he lit, and blew out, for the last king’s bastard, traitor son, was purest white, untouched by the yellow of no longer needed warnings.
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses, Isael Sabaey
Prompt: 013 “Yellow”
Word Count: 159
Rating: G
Notes: He’s always hated the number thirteen. He no longer remembers why.
He used to think that lies had a shape, colours of their own--yet another thing he lost, when Ruadhan died. He can remember that he’d once had a spectrum of colours for lies, but he can no longer put names to the spectrum, no longer define a lie by the colour it calls to his mind. So yellow (not gold, not ochre, but a bright blinding thing found by staring at the sun or in the stripes of poisonous snakes) became a colour of warning, a colour of danger, without any reasoning behind it.
He’d resisted the urge to paint thirteen thin yellow stripes on a white remembrance candle. Those who knew already would find nothing new here, and it would be a sharp, incomprehensible thing to those who did not. So the candle he lit, and blew out, for the last king’s bastard, traitor son, was purest white, untouched by the yellow of no longer needed warnings.
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Date: 2005-11-14 03:35 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-11-14 05:05 am (UTC)From:Like Isael. All sharp and dark.