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incandescens) wrote in 31_days2008-12-10 11:13 pm
a part of something longer (Original)
Title: a part of something longer
Day/Theme: 10) here's vengeance for your story-books
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Original
Rating: PG
Once upon a time there lived a brother and a sister who both belonged to the same Library. Now this was a strange library, for it held books from a thousand worlds, but lay outside all of them. And the brother and sister loved each other and worked together to find new books for the Library.
One day, the brother said to his sister, "Since this Library contains all books, does it contain the story of its own founding?"
"I suppose so," the sister said. "But it would be unwise to seek for it."
"Why?" the brother asked.
"Because of the nature of the Library's secret," the sister answered, "that we both wear branded upon our backs."
Now the brother had never before troubled to look at the mark upon his back. But that night he sought a mirror and read the writing on his skin: and what he read there sent him mad.
He left the Library then, and he leagued with its enemies against it, but most of all he swore that he would take vengeance upon his sister, for she had spoken the words that set him on this path.
A hundred years later, when his sister returned to the Library from a task that she had been set, she was with child. And this caused great trouble, for there could be no birth nor death within the Library, yet she feared to set foot outside it lest her brother should find it. So in pain she begged them to cut open her belly and take the child out: and they did so, and she was delivered of a daughter. And they sewed up her belly with silver thread and hid her among the deepest vaults for fear that her brother should seek her again.
But her daughter they raised in the Library.
Day/Theme: 10) here's vengeance for your story-books
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Original
Rating: PG
Once upon a time there lived a brother and a sister who both belonged to the same Library. Now this was a strange library, for it held books from a thousand worlds, but lay outside all of them. And the brother and sister loved each other and worked together to find new books for the Library.
One day, the brother said to his sister, "Since this Library contains all books, does it contain the story of its own founding?"
"I suppose so," the sister said. "But it would be unwise to seek for it."
"Why?" the brother asked.
"Because of the nature of the Library's secret," the sister answered, "that we both wear branded upon our backs."
Now the brother had never before troubled to look at the mark upon his back. But that night he sought a mirror and read the writing on his skin: and what he read there sent him mad.
He left the Library then, and he leagued with its enemies against it, but most of all he swore that he would take vengeance upon his sister, for she had spoken the words that set him on this path.
A hundred years later, when his sister returned to the Library from a task that she had been set, she was with child. And this caused great trouble, for there could be no birth nor death within the Library, yet she feared to set foot outside it lest her brother should find it. So in pain she begged them to cut open her belly and take the child out: and they did so, and she was delivered of a daughter. And they sewed up her belly with silver thread and hid her among the deepest vaults for fear that her brother should seek her again.
But her daughter they raised in the Library.