Amaranth: A Dream

[idolpro]

Once, there was a maiden...

...whose battles called her far from home.
She slew the thing she feared most, and conquered the land that feared her.
As she fought, far away, she knew her children needed guidance.
She knew they faced tyrants.
She knew they faced fear.
In her homeland, things were broken.
So, she held up her hand before the sun, and cast a shadow on the world, and drowned the troubles of her home in darkness.

"Survival's a long reach," she said.

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Re: The Garden: 2/2

[maidenheaven]

[ gently, squeezing her hand ]

. . . Children grow up, Mother. As do I—as does he.

Should he . . . be needed elsewhere, then would you say he would not go?

Re: The Garden: 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ It is just the two of you in this garden, now; no LiliS children lounge or read or tend the flowers. ]

....He would go.
It is inevitable, isn't it. You, and he, and the third, whose name I never learned before he rotted away in my arms.

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[maidenheaven]

[ closing his eyes now, brow knitted—certainly in his expression there is pain, sympathy for her pain even if he could not have sympathy for himself; he could not grieve for himself, nor for persephone in his need to go where he is needed, but even so, he could feel for her and her pain. he does not know this third child—and if he did, he would certainly hold contempt for him, yet even so, he would never condemn her pain. ]

Re: The Garden: 2/2

[maidenheaven]

[ —then his brow smooths and he smiles, as softly as he can, as kindly as he can; and he speaks, as gently as he can, as calmly as he can ]

All children must leave their nest eventually—you cannot protect us forever.

Re: The Garden: 2/2

[worthathousand]

If I cannot, then it is my own failing. The exaltation I have been given is strong enough for it.

I can and must do better than this. For the sake of all of you.

EVENTUALLY

[fallingflowers]

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