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[Aug. 13] [Original] Voyager
Title: Voyager
Day/Theme: Aug. 13, 2010 "life is short and the world is wide"
Series: Original (Man, I feel like I haven't written about these characters in ages, but Duskany's the one in this icon)
Character/Pairing: Duskany, Garland
Rating: PG
The only way I could've seen all the places I wanted to see in my life would've been to make a list early on and rush off to all of them one after the other. The list would've been too long for many extraneous side trips. I had too many desires. A life of one hundred years would never have been enough to see the world. It's funny. When I was a child, I never wanted to go anywhere. I wanted, like all the rest of my people, simply to live and die in that one tiny village, never having ventured forth from the forest. At first constant travel had been a curse. Then it became a blessing, and it was the second greatest blessing of my life.
Garland, do you remember when we stumbled together into the Silent Lands? You were stumbling in the sand that sucked in your awkward feet. I was kicking it up in big terrible sprays with the points of the climbing spikes on my boots because I was always too lazy to take them off even when I wasn't planning on doing any tree-climbing. I always was a sluggish pain in the neck, wasn't I?
What's that? You don't think so? You think I was way too energetic for my own good? For your own good too? Hmm. Ha ha, maybe you've got something there, Garland.
I always remember things the way I feel like remembering them though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm editing my life over and over in memory until I get it just the way that suits me. Just like my autobiography.
Yes, I know I never updated it. Yes, I know I wrote it when I was about thirty and then said I was done and never ever went back to it. It's not like I forgot. I never meant to finish it, Garland. It was just a thing to do. Anyway, no one but you or me cares much about what came after that. When I was young, history was moving, swirling around me. There were wars that we fought in- wars people would like to hear about.
They weren't as fun as what came after and between. The happy walking, you and me. If I'd had the time I could've gone on like that forever. But you know how it is, Garland. The world is too big for one life. People have to compromise.
Day/Theme: Aug. 13, 2010 "life is short and the world is wide"
Series: Original (Man, I feel like I haven't written about these characters in ages, but Duskany's the one in this icon)
Character/Pairing: Duskany, Garland
Rating: PG
The only way I could've seen all the places I wanted to see in my life would've been to make a list early on and rush off to all of them one after the other. The list would've been too long for many extraneous side trips. I had too many desires. A life of one hundred years would never have been enough to see the world. It's funny. When I was a child, I never wanted to go anywhere. I wanted, like all the rest of my people, simply to live and die in that one tiny village, never having ventured forth from the forest. At first constant travel had been a curse. Then it became a blessing, and it was the second greatest blessing of my life.
Garland, do you remember when we stumbled together into the Silent Lands? You were stumbling in the sand that sucked in your awkward feet. I was kicking it up in big terrible sprays with the points of the climbing spikes on my boots because I was always too lazy to take them off even when I wasn't planning on doing any tree-climbing. I always was a sluggish pain in the neck, wasn't I?
What's that? You don't think so? You think I was way too energetic for my own good? For your own good too? Hmm. Ha ha, maybe you've got something there, Garland.
I always remember things the way I feel like remembering them though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm editing my life over and over in memory until I get it just the way that suits me. Just like my autobiography.
Yes, I know I never updated it. Yes, I know I wrote it when I was about thirty and then said I was done and never ever went back to it. It's not like I forgot. I never meant to finish it, Garland. It was just a thing to do. Anyway, no one but you or me cares much about what came after that. When I was young, history was moving, swirling around me. There were wars that we fought in- wars people would like to hear about.
They weren't as fun as what came after and between. The happy walking, you and me. If I'd had the time I could've gone on like that forever. But you know how it is, Garland. The world is too big for one life. People have to compromise.