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purplekitteI have an odd idea this came of rereading some Fate of the Jedi and Age of Discovery too close together.
Title: Imperfection
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purplekitte
Theme: Silver Millennium--Deformity
Genre: Angst, Drama
Version: Manga
Rating: PG
She watched the lights of the court from afar. She was the most important person, she reminded herself. She was too valuable to appear in court to greet the envoys from Earth. (She knew the real reason, of course.)
She didn’t even want to see the Golden Princess dance, the Silver Queen on her throne, the dark and wild foreigners. Not one bit. She got to go out today with everyone occupied there.
And if she spent it drawing in moondust with a finger and watching the lights, so what? She wasn’t a little kid. She didn’t have to run around all the time.
“What are you doing out here?”
Lina jerked up. “Who’re you?” She couldn’t see the woman very well and didn’t know her. She turned away from her, tried to put her arm behind her.
“I’m Lady Beryl, from the embassy.”
“You shouldn’t be out here,” she snapped, annoyed at the childish waver in her voice.
“I slipped the guards. Did you slip your nurse?”
“Don’t have a nurse. I’m the demon guard.”
The woman stepped closer, and Lina gasped a little. What a freak, with her hair not straight and face too long and thin and vulpine. No wonder the guards had been happy for her to leave the court’s eyes. She wondered if the Terrans were all so ugly for this one to be included in an envoy. “What’s a demon guard? That sounds like a lot of responsibility for a girl your age.”
“I’m Princess Selina of the Moon Kingdom. By my power, the demon in the sun is kept there, so we can have peace.”
“Powered by a forsaken child, eh? I’ve never heard of you and…”
The woman stepped closer and Lina saw her eyes widen. Too late to not be seen. She curled her lip at the barbarian judging her, which pulled at the limp muscle of the bad, drooping side of her face. She wiped a drop of drool from the edge of that side of her mouth with the weak hand of her withered arm.
“And here I thought all Lunarians were perfect.”
“They are.”
“‘They’ are. So if you’re not one of them even by being born to the queen, right?--what are you one of?”
“I’m one of the demons’, I suppose.” She flicked gray dust from her fingers.
Beryl smiled, sharply, with plenty of teeth. How uncouth. “Want to be one of mine?”
Lina glanced at the lights under the crystal of the main dome, then at the ugly glow of the half-Earth in the sky. “I don’t see why not.”
Title: Imperfection
Author:
purplekitteTheme: Silver Millennium--Deformity
Genre: Angst, Drama
Version: Manga
Rating: PG
She watched the lights of the court from afar. She was the most important person, she reminded herself. She was too valuable to appear in court to greet the envoys from Earth. (She knew the real reason, of course.)
She didn’t even want to see the Golden Princess dance, the Silver Queen on her throne, the dark and wild foreigners. Not one bit. She got to go out today with everyone occupied there.
And if she spent it drawing in moondust with a finger and watching the lights, so what? She wasn’t a little kid. She didn’t have to run around all the time.
“What are you doing out here?”
Lina jerked up. “Who’re you?” She couldn’t see the woman very well and didn’t know her. She turned away from her, tried to put her arm behind her.
“I’m Lady Beryl, from the embassy.”
“You shouldn’t be out here,” she snapped, annoyed at the childish waver in her voice.
“I slipped the guards. Did you slip your nurse?”
“Don’t have a nurse. I’m the demon guard.”
The woman stepped closer, and Lina gasped a little. What a freak, with her hair not straight and face too long and thin and vulpine. No wonder the guards had been happy for her to leave the court’s eyes. She wondered if the Terrans were all so ugly for this one to be included in an envoy. “What’s a demon guard? That sounds like a lot of responsibility for a girl your age.”
“I’m Princess Selina of the Moon Kingdom. By my power, the demon in the sun is kept there, so we can have peace.”
“Powered by a forsaken child, eh? I’ve never heard of you and…”
The woman stepped closer and Lina saw her eyes widen. Too late to not be seen. She curled her lip at the barbarian judging her, which pulled at the limp muscle of the bad, drooping side of her face. She wiped a drop of drool from the edge of that side of her mouth with the weak hand of her withered arm.
“And here I thought all Lunarians were perfect.”
“They are.”
“‘They’ are. So if you’re not one of them even by being born to the queen, right?--what are you one of?”
“I’m one of the demons’, I suppose.” She flicked gray dust from her fingers.
Beryl smiled, sharply, with plenty of teeth. How uncouth. “Want to be one of mine?”
Lina glanced at the lights under the crystal of the main dome, then at the ugly glow of the half-Earth in the sky. “I don’t see why not.”
