Posted by Kemush on September 15, 2008, 11:24 am Triumphant.
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He returns to this place in search of her. He can smell her Earth and it stirs things in him; things that should be remembered but lie squandered and forgotten. It is a small feat to ferret her out of the glades and glens deep in age and wisdom. He finds her and touches his nose to her shoulder in greeting. His face holds a smile as he pulls it from her fur, the scent of her still in his nostrils, like pollen on a bee. “Aian.” he says. “What you asked of me… it is done. I learned from a friend (he considers her that and more) of mine, why Lightning is presumed better than the other elements.” He can hear it all again - the rush of the tides behind them, the cry of tern or gull, the intake of breath and the song of it spilling from her mouth - resplendent, and he had listened, transfixed by more than her voice or the element shared between them. “Lightning is better because it is transcendent - bound to nothing but the horse it binds itself too, not dissimilar to air in this but it proves to be far deadlier than air too. And it is beautiful and different, as are all the elements but it transcends more than earth and sky. For those of us bound to it, it is divine.” he concludes, and smiles once more at his teacher. “Does this satisfy you?”
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