Renderings [February 25th] [Ashura, Kujaku] [RG Veda]
Title :: Renderings
Prompt :: February 25th, “Tinder ablaze” [31_days]
Characters :: Ashura, Kujaku
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers; set during the very end of the series.
Wordcount :: 110
Summary :: Sometimes good intentions cannot be escaped, in the end.
He can feel sunlight on his face, burning at his eyes like fire even from behind still-closed lids, and his first coherent thought (in this life, in this world) is simply, Why can’t I smell the smoke?
Things are spiraling into dust, to ash, and he knows the consequences will be there, all laid out before him in frantic disarray, when he truly wakes.
It could be kinder to sleep forever, to be allowed to sleep forever, but sometimes good intentions cannot be escaped, in the end.
And he will take comfort in the memory of that final smile, in the memory of the welcoming lingering even in its curve.
Prompt :: February 25th, “Tinder ablaze” [31_days]
Characters :: Ashura, Kujaku
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers; set during the very end of the series.
Wordcount :: 110
Summary :: Sometimes good intentions cannot be escaped, in the end.
He can feel sunlight on his face, burning at his eyes like fire even from behind still-closed lids, and his first coherent thought (in this life, in this world) is simply, Why can’t I smell the smoke?
Things are spiraling into dust, to ash, and he knows the consequences will be there, all laid out before him in frantic disarray, when he truly wakes.
It could be kinder to sleep forever, to be allowed to sleep forever, but sometimes good intentions cannot be escaped, in the end.
And he will take comfort in the memory of that final smile, in the memory of the welcoming lingering even in its curve.