I see my reflection and something stirrs.
Hair is pushed behind my ear and my reflection seems to sparkle.
There's only one thing missing.
One thing
Smile, i tell my face. Smile like you used to.
I try
But it looks sad, it looks forced.
She looks lost,
An adult on the voyage to realization, and she's lost.
The wind was taken out of the sails, snatched by the breath of heaven.
This makes for hard going, but staying is impossible.
"Break out the paddles! Stock the galley! Raise the mizzen mast!
The stress'll blow ya away if'n ya don't work fast!"
50 days paddling out to sea,
A storm blows over, and the work intensifies.
"First r
Another Episode
To be continued...
Always has another episode.
Part one,
Always has another episode.
Life...
Always has another episode.
Another character,
Another birth,
Another death...
Yes, it must end.
Peace, Democracy, Love.
The end is the end, after all.
No room for another episode.
New recruits,
popping up everywhere.
One by one, meeting,
seeing, learning,
Forming.
Under attack.
Channels being monitored,
Spies, doublecrossers, everybody unsafe.
No saftey, no haven.
Tears shed by the innocent
don't help the day get won.
What does? The end?
Last resort. Not an option.
Every day, Last resort
comes closer and
Clear your eyes, listen to your heart, soon you shall find it. It is everywhere at once, woven within the fabric of the lives all will lead. Find you, it will, in a moment of absolute peace.
Knock, Knock, Knock!! The sudden noise startled Edward, who was in the middle of another stint of clipping piccys from the pile of free magazines littering the floor of his bedside. The ever-young demi-robot tensed lightly and let the papers slide from his metal fingers. They splayed out over the floor and Edward trampled over them as he crept hunchbacked to the shadowed corner of the room. Here the cripple crouched, listening and listening, for the soun
Author's note: The main character's name is constantly changed back between Emmeline and Emmy in the following document. This is intentional, and is used to indicate a flashback, a time when she feels childish emotions, eg, fear, or when another character wants to piss her off with a little-kid nickname. All swears have been partially interrupted with asterisks for your reading pleasure.
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Emmeline
Emmeline knelt over the dragon scale one last time. At 15, the girl had far outgrown the world beyond her own, here in suburban Arizona. That world was for little kids, accessed by a little rhyme, a little magic, and a little dragon