50 Sentences: Symphony in E Minor (Deux)
#01 - Walking
He was a child of eight, walking with his mother, when he heard the most beautiful voice in the world, and in the depths of his heart he knew he had to find her.
#02 - Waltz
She was a vision, twirling in what seemed to be the motion of the waltz, never mind that she was in a man’s clothing and clutching an aged cello.
#03 - Wishes
She flourished a bow and the bells of her coat jingled, and she asked for wishes - wishes of what exactly he didn’t know - as payment for her song.
#04 - Wonder
He could not express the overpowering, supernatural feeling in his heart that threatened all of his being everytime he hears her sing, and she sings to him of a world gone by and a world he’d never understand, but the wonder was there, and that was what mattered.
#05 - Worry
Isn’t it the woman who worries? He thinks this to himself and chuckles about his situation.
#06 - Whimsy
She was a very whimsy being, and he found her unpredictability breath-taking - you never knew where you were with her.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
She always referred to her state as a sort of wasteland; she loved him too much to make him understand it.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
He couldn’t remember who suggested they simultaneously down whiskey and rum, and he could only drink so much of it, but he decided he liked the trail of rum down her pale skin, and he licked it up and her shiver sent a delicious tension forming by his upper thighs.
#09 - War
Tracking down an elusive demon for years and winning it was just another war won in his long list of accomplishments.
#10 - Weddings
She loved weddings, but this was the only time she could not set foot in the Church to have it, but he was okay with that - he would marry her wherever it was, even on the moon, if she wanted it.
#11 - Birthday
Sonja never failed to make him a cake for every birthday, not even when he started to slow in his steps and his eyesight went bad and his hands trembled too much to hold a gun; she never forgot, oh she would never.
#12 - Blessing
The Kleist family saw everything of her as a blessing for their son Karl - had they known the truth, well, that was a different matter entirely.
#13 - Bias
“Of course I’m biased with my wife,” he exclaimed with disbelief at Ansel. “She’s the best musician in the worlds!”
#14 - Burning
It was astounding how much a single touch of hers could make him feel this awful burning within, and sometimes he wondered if he should bother with clothes at all when they were alone in the house.
#15 - Breathing
For her part, she loved resting her head on his chest and listening to his breathing, and she knew he was alive, very much so.
#16 - Breaking
It was the festering destruction of time that sent her breaking inside, and nobody else could understand it, lingering on while he became dust, just lingering on into nothing.
#17 - Belief
She shattered every belief and faith he ever had.
#18 - Balloon
He paused and stared at her, and she grinned like a little girl and repeated the words: “I want a balloon!”
#19 - Balcony
He was a pervert, she was sure of it - sometimes he liked catching her unawares in the balcony and mess her up there.
#20 - Bane
He was the bane of her existence - how she wished she could have met him when she was just…normal.
#21 - Quiet
When she became quiet, Karl knew he had done something wrong - he just wished he could figure it out fast enough to fix things.
#22 - Quirks
“You, madame, are the Queen of Quirks!” He said that with a loud snort of laughter after she’d burst in on him in an oversized Poring costume.
#23 - Question
That was the one question she never asked and he never dared answer - would you become like me, and walk with me on the long and arduous path of forever?
#24 - Quarrel
She believed that love consisted of not a single quarrel with your mate - but of course, that was impossible and boring, so she abandoned that belief entirely.
#25 - Quitting
A thousand bats screeched and created a maelstrom around him, but Karl von Kleist was not one for quitting, and he laughed, and that laugh contained the promise that he would find her again, without fail, next time.
#26 - Jump
Her eyelids fluttered, and she raised a finger to her lower lip - she said the word, Jump~ - like a caress, and idiot that he was, he did jump.
#27 - Jester
He loved her performances as a jester - she looked pretty in that oversized Joker Jester hat, that one in green and blue with bells.
#28 - Jousting
“I’m not much for jousting,” she told him with a wrinkled nose. “But I do love the kind of jousting that doesn’t involve clothes.”
#29 - Jewel
Her eyes were like great red jewels - redder than blood.
#30 - Just
He didn’t run after her all the time; it was only just that she do some of the work around here, too.
#31 - Smirk
She hated that smirk he always uses before shushing her with a kiss and the greatest wave of pleasure she ever knew.
#32 - Sorrow
The sorrow of parting was something she wouldn’t ever dwell on too long when it came to that - beings like her never wept too long in the first place.
#33 - Stupidity
Perhaps it was his stupidity that allowed him to fall into the trap of her voice, there at the beginning of every crazy decision he made afterward.
#34 - Serenade
She was good with serenades - he never really got the hang of them.
#35 - Sarcasm
Whatever sarcasm he had never worked on her - she was also remarkably skilled with deadpanning.
#36 - Sordid
A sordid mess, that was what she was, with her bloodied mouth and hands, on top of him in all of her ageless glory.
#37 - Soliloquy
He asked her if she ever wrote a soliloquy; she wrinkled her nose, and he couldn’t believe that she had an artistic weak spot.
#38 - Sojourn
He was nothing but a brief sojourn in the grand symphony.
#39 - Share
“He’s remarkably selfish,” Ansel commented. “He doesn’t want to share even Sonja’s cookies to guests, can you believe it?”
#40 - Solitary
She skipped from rock to rock, perfectly balanced, making music in this solitary picture in the middle of the field.
#41 - Nowhere
They would get nowhere despite all the passion - he knew it, nowhere - he would die and she would move on and who knows, who knows which man might also work up this courage and go after her next.
#42 - Neutral
She didn’t like joining in the little trivial family feuds they had now and then; she kept neutral and let him deal with his siblings and their insignificant human problems.
#43 - Nuance
There was so much to music; every nuance between every tune and tone and melody and rhythm and pitch and tempo - it made his head ache, but she knew all of it, like the back of her hand.
#44 - Near
She was near, deliciously so, once she starts that godawful sexy tensing and she makes this expression that only serves as an excuse for him to make love to her longer.
#45 - Natural
“It’s only natural for me to kill, Karl,” she told him. “Because this is what I am.”
#46 - Horizon
His failing eyes looked to the horizon, and he noted what a beautiful sunset it was - he also knew it was the last one he’d ever see.
#47 - Valiant
She seriously didn’t know if the Gunslinger who stalked her was simply valiant or downright idiotic.
#48 - Virtuous
Her mother-in-law spread stories of her being virtuous everywhere, it seemed.
#49 - Victory
In the end, it was his victory - he made her stay and settle for more than fifty years - the longest she’d ever bothered to ever since her change.
#50 - Defeat
And she was left suffering her defeat when he passed away, and she hated him for it - forever.