Recipient: sullacat Prompt: "Tears at times have all the weight of speech." Your favorite character. Word count: 100 Rating: general, but implied character death
Unanticipated
Hermione is not used to lacking for words. She has swum in an ocean of words since she can remember: words printed in books, words scribbled on parchment, words spoken across the air of a room.
Today tears slide down her cheeks, salt-streaking them, and she wonders how long the ocean of her grief - so many grieving now - will replace that of the words she treasures.
Later, she will again find words. She will speak above two coffins, of love and of courage and of desperate hope. Today, though, her tears bear the weight of the speech she cannot utter.
Prompt: "Tears at times have all the weight of speech." Your favorite character.
Word count: 100
Rating: general, but implied character death
Unanticipated
Hermione is not used to lacking for words. She has swum in an ocean of words since she can remember: words printed in books, words scribbled on parchment, words spoken across the air of a room.
Today tears slide down her cheeks, salt-streaking them, and she wonders how long the ocean of her grief - so many grieving now - will replace that of the words she treasures.
Later, she will again find words. She will speak above two coffins, of love and of courage and of desperate hope. Today, though, her tears bear the weight of the speech she cannot utter.
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