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Title: names
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; (Arianhrod)
Prompt: 003 "Ends"
Word Count: 106
Rating: all ages
Notes: first war, out of narrative piece.
There were no towers in the domain of the Trickwood's master, nothing to sing defiance to the sky and everything in it. The forest's master turned his power to other things, and those of the blood and the will respected his, and turned their eyes aside as well.
The master's half-sister, who accepted no titles but her name to her face, was away from her face a legend. Reality in itself was no barrier to a poetic story, made better by her ancestry and the stories already told.
The master's half-sister--the Sun Queen's Daughter--the lady in the tower who brought the dragon down.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; (Arianhrod)
Prompt: 003 "Ends"
Word Count: 106
Rating: all ages
Notes: first war, out of narrative piece.
There were no towers in the domain of the Trickwood's master, nothing to sing defiance to the sky and everything in it. The forest's master turned his power to other things, and those of the blood and the will respected his, and turned their eyes aside as well.
The master's half-sister, who accepted no titles but her name to her face, was away from her face a legend. Reality in itself was no barrier to a poetic story, made better by her ancestry and the stories already told.
The master's half-sister--the Sun Queen's Daughter--the lady in the tower who brought the dragon down.
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Date: 2007-08-01 09:04 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 02:27 pm (UTC)From:The title/phrase 'the lady in the tower' has a veeery different meaning in the 'roses culture than it does in our fairy tales, which I only sort of noticed while waiting for an open house to start.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:48 pm (UTC)From:...and heh, yeah, I think I'd internalised that (based on stuff you said about architecture, and the amount of power needed to say 'never mind the dragons, never mind the weather, I'm having a tower *anyway*') to the point where the fairy-tale version never even occured to me, in context...
(...besides, if any Sabaeys are going to be hanging about helpless and needing rescue? I have this eerie feeling that it won't be the female ones...)
*wishes you an extra few hours out of the day in which to get proper rest etc...*