sym0911ion's Journal
 
[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends View]

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    Time Event
    12:55a
    A number of young men had been caught after...
    A number of young men had been caught after curfew and killed on the wheels that springIf what she was doing kept him alive she would face whatever judgment lay in wait for her in Morian's Halls
    She couldn't keep him every night thoughSometimes a need she could not share or truly understand would drive him forthHow the city was different under the two moons or one of them or the starsHow softer light and shadow let him see it as Tigana againHow he could walk silently down towards the sea and come upon the darkened palace, and how the rubble and ruin of it could somehow be rebuilt in his mind in darkness towards what it had been before
    He had a need for that, he saidHe never baited the soldiers and promised her he never wouldHe didn't even want to see them, he chanel wallet saidThey crashed into the illusions he wantedHe just needed to be abroad inside his memory of the city that had goneSometimes, Baerd told her, he would slip through gaps he knew in the harbor walls and walk along the beach listening to the sea
    By day he labored, a thin boy at a strong man's job, helping to rebuild what they were permitted to rebuildRich merchants from Corte, their ancient enemies, had been allowed to settle in the city, to buy up the smashed buildings and residential palaces very inexpensively, and to set about restoring them for their own purposes
    Baerd would come home at the end of a day sometimes with gashes and fresh bruises, and once the mark of a whip across his shouldersShe knew that if one company of soldiers had ended their sport with him there chanel classic bags were others to pick it upIt was only happening here, she'd heardEverywhere else the soldiers restrained themselves and the King of Ygrath was governing with care, to consolidate his provinces against Barbadior
    In Lower Corte they were special, thoughThey had killed his son
    She would see those marks on Baerd and she had not the heart to ask him to deny himself his lost city at night when the need rose in himEven though she lived a hundred terrors and died half a hundred deaths every time the front door closed behind him after dark, until she heard it open again and heard his loved, familiar footstep on the stairs, and then the landing, and then he came into her room to take and hold her in his arms
    It went on into summer and then it endedIt all ended, as her knowing dolce & gabbana bag heart had forewarned her from that first time in darkness, listening to the birds singing and the wind in the trees outside
    He came home no later than he usually did from walking abroad one night when blue Ilarion had been riding alone through a high lacework of cloudsIt had been a beautiful nightShe had sat up late by her window watching the moonlight falling on the rooftopsShe'd been in bed when he came home though, and her heart had quickened with the familiar intermingling of relief and guilt and needHe had come into her room
    He didn't come to bedInstead, he sank into the chair she'd sat in by the windowWith a queer, numb feeling of dread she had struck tinder and lit her candleShe sat up and looked at himHis face was very white, she could see that even by wholesale tiffany candlelight
    "I was on the beach," Baerd said quietly"I saw a riselka there
    She had always known it would end
    She asked the instinctive question"Did anyone else see her?"
    He shook his head
    They looked at each other in silenceShe was amazed at how calm she was, how steady her hands were upon the comforterAnd in that silence a truth came home to her, one she had probably known for a long time"You have only been staying for me, in any case," she saidHe had seen a riselka"You knew?"
    "Yes," she lied
    "I'm sorry," he said, looking at herBut she knew that this would be easier for him if she were able to hide how new and deathly cold this actually was for herA gift; perhaps the last gift she would give him
    "Don't be sorry," she murmured, her hands lying still, where he could see rolex watches for women them
    1:49a
    "\iLies!\i" "Please And Harry saw the white...
    "\iLies!\i"
    "Please
    And Harry saw the white hand raise its wand and felt Voldemort's surge of vicious anger, saw the frail old main on the floor writhe in agony -
    "Harry?"
    It was over as quickly as it had come: Harry stood shaking in the darkness, clutching the gate into the garden, his heart racing, his scar still tinglingIt was several moments before he realized that Ron and Hermione were at his side
    "Harry, come back in the house," Hermione whispered, "You aren't still thinking of leaving?"
    "Yeah, you've got to stay, mate," said Ron, thumping Harry on the back
    "Are you all right?" Hermione asked, close enough now to look into Harry's face"You look awful!"
    "Well," said Harry shakily, "I probably look better than Ollivander
    When he had finished telling them what he had seen, Ron looked appalled, but Hermione downright terrified
    "But cartier tank watch it was supposed to have stopped! Your scar - it wasn't supposed to do this anymore! You mustn't let that connection open up again - Dumbledore wanted you to close your mind!"
    When he did not reply, she gripped his arm
    "Harry, he's taking over the Ministry and the newspapers and half the Wizarding world! Don't let him inside your head too!"

    \p\C0="Chapter Six: The Ghoul in Pajamas"
    \bChapter Six
    \iThe Ghoul in Pajamas\i\b
    The shock of losing Mad-Eye hung over the house in the days that followed; Harry kept expecting to see him stumping in through the back door like the other Order members, who passed in and out to relay newsHarry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible
    "Well, you can't do anything about the" - Ron louis vuitton gm bag mouthed the word \iHorcruxes\i - "till you're seventeenYou've still got the Trace on youAnd we can plan here as well as anywhere, can't we? Or," he dropped his voice to a whisper, "d'you reckon you already know where the You-Know-Whats are?"
    "No," Harry admitted
    "I think Hermione's been doing a bit of research," said Ron"She said she was saving it for when you got here
    They were sitting at the breakfast table; MrWeasley and Bill had just left for workWeasley had gone upstairs to wake Hermione and Ginny, while Fleur had drifted off to take a bath
    "The Trace'll break on the thirty-first," said Harry"That means I only need to stay here four daysThen I can -"
    "Five days," Ron corrected him firmly"We've got to stay for the weddingThey'll kill us if we miss it
    Harry understood "they" to mean Fleur and Mrs
    "It's one extra day," said Ron, when Harry see by chloe bags looked mutinous
    "Don't they realize how important -?"
    "'Course they don't," said Ron"They haven't got a clueAnd now you mention it, I wanted to talk to you about that
    Ron glanced toward the door into the hall to check that MrsWeasley was not returning yet, then leaned in closer to Harry
    "Mum's been trying to get it out of Hermione and meWhat we're off to doShe'll try you next, so brace yourselfDad and Lupin've both asked as well, but when we
    said Dumbledore told you not to tell anyone except us, they dropped it
    Ron's prediction came true within hoursShortly before lunch, MrsWeasley detached Harry from the others by asking him to help identify a lone man's sock that she thought might have come out of his rucksackOnce she had him cornered in the tiny scullery off the kitchen, she started
    "Ron and Hermione seem to think that the three of you are mulberry leather bag dropping out of Hogwarts," she began in a light, casual tone
    The mangle turned of its own accord in a corner, wringing out what looked like one of Mr
    "May I ask \iwhy\i you are abandoning your education?" said Mrs
    "Well, Dumbledore left me stuff to do," mumbled Harry"Ron and Hermione know about it, and they want to come too
    "What sort of 'stuff'?"
    "I'm sorry, I can't -"
    "Well, frankly, I think Arthur and I have a right to know, and I'm sure MrGranger would agree!" said MrsHarry had been afraid of the "concerned parent" attackHe forced himself to look directly into her eyes, noticing as he did so that they were precisely the same shade of brown as Ginny's
    "Dumbledore didn't want anyone else to know, MrsRon and Hermione don't have to come, it's their choice -"
    "I don't see that \iyou\i have to go either!" she snapped, dropping all pretense chanel earrings logo now

    << Previous Day 2010/08/31
    [Calendar]
    Next Day >>

About InsaneJournal