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11-17-2016, 11:16 PM
She came. I bit my tongue and she came, and I felt Sparkmarrow’s metal against my skin, whatever that meant, and there was swirling shadows and some magical bullshit and Lee was plucked from the ice as easily as a windfall from a field in autumn.
She spoke to us, saying something smart, and I kept my gaze turned away and my mouth clamped shut and my eyes hard rocks with flecks of ice and waited for that whoosh-whoosh that signaled her departure. The whoosh never came, though, and there was just a full solid moment where we stood there, doing nothing, being awkward as hell with a God in our midst. Well, okay, some of us were moving, mainly the
Anyway, uh.
Mauja was free from the ice. And when nothing and no one moved, I finally broke and turned to him, and as soon as my sight fell on his sharp, thin figure, I lost all sense of feigning disinterest. “Lee,” I hissed, the concern in my throat making his name harsh as it slipped past my teeth. I clamored for him--then stopped, brought up short by the large, feathered owl laying on the ground. The sight of one of his companions sent a lurch in my stomach--images of Chico came bounding in my head--but now wasn’t the time to feel bad about it. Might as well get the job done.
I reached down and nudged the limp owl back toward its bonded, inching closer and closer to Lee until the bird would at least be touching some part of him. Then, without once acknowledging the Moon’s presence, I reached forward to sharpest point of the former-King’s shoulder, offering something warm and real and earth-bound to help thaw some of the hard freeze of existence. “Lee….Lee?” I called to him--chanted almost. I didn’t know what I wanted from him; did I expect him to speak so soon after being freed from a glacier? Maybe I just prodded gently for spark of recognition, a murmur of understanding--any sign at all for life, that the God of the Moon just hadn’t brought us an empty husk and called it a day.
Quit Hollerin' "Why God?", he ain't got shit to do with it.
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