Wild Roses fic prompt 018 "Black"

[taennyn]

Title: twilight
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Ruadhan
Prompt: 018 "Black"
Word Count: 117
Rating: G
Notes: very early stages of the first war; another experiment in first-person.


Summer and the sun breed different faiths than winter and the night. Mages know this--especially the old ones. I who never met the woman who was the Queen before my mother know this--that she would not wear night's colours and clothed herself in the anchors of the sun instead. I'd ask her, if I could, if that was awareness of the message she'd give, if she'd been the Queen in black to match my father's self-given chain. If it was, instead, that she chose the light, the summer and the sun in symbols if not in burning truth.

What she would think of what we her successors have made of her world--our power brushing into twilight and the depths of autumn, our brushed grays and our softened blues.

Comments

[billradish.livejournal.com]

I'd ask her, if I could, if that was awareness of the message she'd give, the Queen in black to match my father's self-given chain.

I'm not entirely sure what's meant here, or who he's referencing? Talks of a Queen all in sun colors, then seems to refer to her as the Queen in black. I don't quite follow the train, I think I'm missing the last car and the caboose.

I like this though, and the following bit. They sit soft in the brain.

[taennyn]

Phoebe wore sun-colours as Queen. He'd have asked her, if he could, if that was because of the message she'd have sent as a Queen-in-black, or because she chose the sun herself.

[taennyn]

(black being a power colour, as a pure piece of clothing. Iron and Night, rolled into one, the great equalizer and the things-that-go-bump. Un-comfortable and awareness-demanding together. Most older mages won't/don't wear pure-black as other than small accent-embroidery. Memories of teachers and teachers-of-teachers deliberately choosing to symbolically align themselves with the sun, to set those circumstance forced them to get along with to survive a little more at ease.

And thank you--it is a rather soft-worded combination, especially for him.)

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

...again, being distracted by the pretty tangle of words and having to go back a few times to discern the meaning. you/they keep doing that! just still makes me want a sofa and tea and comfortable leather bound version, with an old book smell to the pages and every word always in the same place as when i first read it.

as to the actual point of the snip itself, i like it. it makes me curious, too.

[taennyn]

I may wind up doing some amount of first-person pieces through the actual storyline--not sure. Hazel, speaking in 'I', Isael, Ruadhan, maybe Etienne or Conall. Will see what comes of the experimental pieces, first. :)

Thank you.