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375 word drabble: Eclipse
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avatar_500 prompt #4, Obstacle.
Summary: The Day of Black Sun is hard on them both.
Eclipse
Yue dragged herself across the sky. She clutched her moon disk hard enough in her hands to leave marks on her spirit-flesh, because she had to reassure herself that it was there, that it was real, because it was the new moon, and even she didn’t get to see it. It was heavy. The climb sapped her strength and the air clung to her, pulling her down.
She could let go of her moon disk. It would hang in the air, invisible. No one would notice it.
But she couldn’t let it go, because she was still trying to reassure herself it was there.
“Agni,” she mumbled, waving her hand weakly.
He smiled at her with a sort of brittle stoicism. As he caught her hand, her lips twitched up to match. “I’ve done this before you know,” he assured her, squeezing his hand.
“Yes.” She pinned the moon disk under her arm. “Don’t worry, I know.” Glancing down at the people below, her people and others, preparing to fight his, she swallowed, and stepped between them and her brother.
He closed his eyes. The weight fell off him as black bled onto her moon disk and her dress. For eight minutes, her hair would be black for the first time since she was born. His round, comfortable form shrank, the skin hanging off him. His hair hung limp. He stumbled.
She caught him. “I wouldn’t have fallen,” he remarked.
“I know.” She clung to him. He clung to her. She was used to this. It came every month. But for him, the sun was always shining somewhere. If it was winter somewhere, it was summer somewhere else. And she felt better than he looked like he did anyway. “Do you want to lean on me until the eclipse passes?” She wondered if Tui felt like he did when she died. He looked like he was about to die.
He sank against her side, and she let herself lean against him, too. She could see her moon disk vanishing again as she glided past him, and as he looked more like himself again, she turned away and slunk the rest of the way through the sky.
She wondered how the battle went. She should look.
avatar_500 prompt #4, Obstacle.Summary: The Day of Black Sun is hard on them both.
Eclipse
Yue dragged herself across the sky. She clutched her moon disk hard enough in her hands to leave marks on her spirit-flesh, because she had to reassure herself that it was there, that it was real, because it was the new moon, and even she didn’t get to see it. It was heavy. The climb sapped her strength and the air clung to her, pulling her down.
She could let go of her moon disk. It would hang in the air, invisible. No one would notice it.
But she couldn’t let it go, because she was still trying to reassure herself it was there.
“Agni,” she mumbled, waving her hand weakly.
He smiled at her with a sort of brittle stoicism. As he caught her hand, her lips twitched up to match. “I’ve done this before you know,” he assured her, squeezing his hand.
“Yes.” She pinned the moon disk under her arm. “Don’t worry, I know.” Glancing down at the people below, her people and others, preparing to fight his, she swallowed, and stepped between them and her brother.
He closed his eyes. The weight fell off him as black bled onto her moon disk and her dress. For eight minutes, her hair would be black for the first time since she was born. His round, comfortable form shrank, the skin hanging off him. His hair hung limp. He stumbled.
She caught him. “I wouldn’t have fallen,” he remarked.
“I know.” She clung to him. He clung to her. She was used to this. It came every month. But for him, the sun was always shining somewhere. If it was winter somewhere, it was summer somewhere else. And she felt better than he looked like he did anyway. “Do you want to lean on me until the eclipse passes?” She wondered if Tui felt like he did when she died. He looked like he was about to die.
He sank against her side, and she let herself lean against him, too. She could see her moon disk vanishing again as she glided past him, and as he looked more like himself again, she turned away and slunk the rest of the way through the sky.
She wondered how the battle went. She should look.
