Kink Me! #4

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counting heartbeats (warnings for major character death, violence)

[anonymous]

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[gatepromise]

*dies of the sad beauty*

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[anonymous]

This is gorgeous; the language, the poetics of it, and oh my that ending ♥ and this paragraph
and the sorcerer presses his ear to the king’s chest, taps out an unsteady rhythm: faltering at first, cautious as a baby bird learning how to fly, and then stirring stronger, stronger, until it is as strong as the sea breaking upon the shore; sure as the stars glittering in the night skies; real as the first glimmer of sunlight just before the dawn; beautiful as a baby’s tiny fist with its curling fingers
just took my breath away. You have the most fascinating way with words, and it's hard to believe it's so short because it feels much bigger. Utterly exquisite.

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[anonymous]

Oh god, this is soso beautiful!

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[brunettepet]

I love this spare, lyrical piece.

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[jissai1988]

holy...holy...*dies*

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[anonymous]

(ouuups I sent it in the wrong place before, sorry, it's my first comment ever on this site^^")

I hope you're reading this because I must say THANK YOU, this is really beautiful and I loved every word of it, I mean it ;) and if you'd allow me, I'd like to translate it (in French, my native language) and post it (I'd give the credits of course) to share it as much as possible, because I think it really deserves it... what do you think? Thanks again for this short but powerful piece :)

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[anonymous]

Hi! I'm the author and oh my god, I would LOVE that, thank you so much!

Let me know if you need anything from me! I'm so thrilled right now, you're so wonderful, thank you!

Re: counting heartbeats (warnings for major character death, violence)

[anonymous]

://) no, YOU're the wonderful one for writing it in the first place :)
So, I'd post it on fanfiction.net (with a link to the original) once it's completely translated, but I have to fill things in like "genre, rating, character(s)" and write a summary... and I thought that maybe you'd want to do it to be sure it's like you want it to be. But I'll do it myself if you want, just tell me ;)

Also, I have two little "translation" questions already: in part three, by "sickly yellows", do you mean it more like the yellows are kind of 'sick', or they make you feel like you are?
And in the last sentences, is the 'you' plural or singular?

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[neathsunnyskies]

You're too kind :).

Sure, that would be great! I'll repost this to my journal and then link to the translation from there. Oh, no, I have no preferences with the genre, rating, characters, summary stuff, so please do as you see fit! I'm usually lazy for summaries and just use the first line from the fic, so anything you do is an improvement!

I think (gosh, these are such good questions, they stumped me for a few minutes!) that I mean the yellows are kind of sick. And in the last sentence... I don't know! Probably singular? I am so unhelpful!

Also, would you prefer to take this to email? Just in case, my email is: neathsunnyskies [at] gmail [dot] com

Feel free to ask me all the questions you like!

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[archaeologist_d]

Loved the counting of it and how Merlin is counting heartbeats. Good job with this.