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Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open]

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08-19-2012, 10:20 PM


Blue fish swam through the waters of the sky. Their dotted, white tails flicked in the wind, their bodies rising and falling as one. They swam for miles and miles and miles. They swam over clouds and past streams. They swam in the shine of the afternoon sun, so that a dark school followed far below. They swam beyond the beating ring of fire and above the roaring dragon. They swam and swam and swam.

By the time the blue fish stopped swimming, the stars were out and whispered for them to rest. They swooped in together with a soft, whistling noise, brushing across Jaydan's back as his hooves fumbled with purchase on the ground beneath.

He stumbled, side swiping a tree and painting it red before clattering to his side with a spray of dead leaves and dry dirt. For a moment the jay was silent, the fish shimmering anxiously against his side with each shaky breath he pulled in. On a particular exhale there arose a peculiar, terrible noise; a deep-chested, groaning note of despair and pain. Pain that had long since bloomed in his heart and now, freshly blossomed on his torn shoulder, which dirt so kindly packed with a dressing of shit and worms and Earth God knows what else. Yet rather than rise from the undignified position, rather than assess his wound and clean it properly, the jay remained.

He shut his eyes, imagining in some small, childish way it would shut out the world and all its hurt, tangible or not. When it didn't, he began to shake. At first sight it might look like he was rocking, as one may to comfort themselves, but this was not the case. Jaydan, a once proud and noble warrior, was trembling because sobs too large to produce sound were filling his chest and choking themselves from his lungs only when they nearly burst. Saline spun dark trails down his cheeks and mucus dribbled in the flared channels of his dirt-smudged nose.

If he waited long enough, maybe the worms would eat him, and then he wouldn't feel so much pain any more. Is this the Moon God's quest then? It seemed good enough, so he remained, and he cried, and little by little, he started to die - as we all do.


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Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open] - by Jaydan - 08-19-2012, 10:20 PM
RE: Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open] - by Jaydan - 08-25-2012, 10:36 PM
RE: Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open] - by Jaydan - 09-11-2012, 12:09 AM
RE: Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open] - by Jaydan - 09-14-2012, 08:18 PM
RE: Imagine there's no heaven [questing/open] - by Jaydan - 09-16-2012, 12:21 AM

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