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Isra and the fallen constellations
“sing me a song I can never learn”
T
his a a story I have heard only in whispers caught in the currents of the night (somewhere between stardust and cedar smoke). Perhaps if I trusted the gods, or perhaps if I did not have this terrible stream of silver magic running beneath my own skin, I would have listened closer.

Perhaps I would have followed the cracks in the earth and the god-blood river instead of a war.

But I am so full of war-stories, and elk-stories, and owl-in-the-rain-stories, that I do not have room between my teeth for another seed of a tale. My soul is bloated with all the things living in this universe tumbling over and over again inside me.

I am dreaming of a bison herd and snow thick enough to sink knee deep into as I wander through the bent fall grass of the prairie. I am dreaming of frost on my eyelashes like tears, and of sailing on a sea that exists only in the places where my soul ebbs against Eik's. The earth carries on only beneath my hooves as I close my eyes to anything but the dreams stretching cobweb and paper-thin in the blackness. Their tendrils crawl underneath by skin like salt-water and seaweed.

I am lost to to the feel of them. Lost,

Lost,

Lost,

Until Fable rattles the ground beneath me as he lands beside me. There is seawater clinging to his wings and I know, before I open my eyes, that the drops of it will ring my horn like a crown and dust my eyelashes in diamond-salt. When I do open my eyes (because he has begged it of me) I don't see the tree bark, or the salt-stones, or the shadows of a bison herd flickering at the edge of my vision like phantoms.

I see only the leaves of the tree upon which bloody flowers are nestled like newborn sparrows in a nest of starlight. And I know enough about the stars (how they are chewed up and spit out by teeth instead of lips) that I do not need to feel my own magic to know what has born this mark upon the prairie. There are lines between the star-leaves, where the branches shine through with twilight lilac and lapis blue, that whisper bits of the forgotten story to me.

The story the tree whispers is a discordant thing (as broken and jagged as my soul when it forgets how to sing). I can feel the struggle in the beauty of it, in the way the grasses still sway like grass instead of gold-leaf in the crisp autumn wind. So I lay down in the grass that does not billow like a cloud because I know how it feels to be cracked in a million dark lines in which the light only barely shines through. Fable curls around us both the tree and I.

I rest my cheek against the twilight bark even when stardust pollen falls from the leaves and the flowers.  And I listen to the muted roar of the silver river with the solar tree singing its ragged song to me like a hallelujah.




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breathe in the story - by Random Events - 06-01-2020, 10:58 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Stellanor - 06-02-2020, 07:36 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Willfur - 06-03-2020, 09:51 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Tenebrae - 06-04-2020, 09:20 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Drune - 06-04-2020, 11:58 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Aehra - 06-05-2020, 08:48 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Maeve - 06-06-2020, 09:53 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Isra - 06-10-2020, 05:30 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Thana - 06-11-2020, 07:00 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Solstice - 06-16-2020, 10:18 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Elena - 06-20-2020, 01:36 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Mephisto - 06-22-2020, 04:35 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Azrael - 06-22-2020, 08:21 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Erasmus - 06-22-2020, 11:19 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Martell - 06-27-2020, 02:59 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Caspian - 06-27-2020, 05:53 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Lyr - 06-27-2020, 06:48 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Zayir - 06-27-2020, 07:22 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Boudika - 06-28-2020, 01:10 AM
RE: breathe in the story - by Radek - 06-28-2020, 01:59 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Eik - 06-28-2020, 03:38 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Dune - 06-28-2020, 06:42 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Corrdelia - 06-28-2020, 08:03 PM
RE: breathe in the story - by Aspara - 06-30-2020, 06:45 PM
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