Syl and I (http://community.livejournal.com/estdeus_innobis/405311.html?thread=10274879#t10274879) pick our way across the beach. It's stony, and I'm glad I didn't lose my shoes in the water, even if they do squelch.
There's a man crouched beside a little girl, and I smile at them, but then I see what the others have dragged into the shallows in a net and feel my heart in my throat.
"In these times, names have power, and can be used. If you can find the creature's name, you may be able to command it answer you true," says a fair haired man, looking down into the net at something that's a serpent that's a fish that's a woman.
I know you. I know you.
"I know her name," I say. I can taste it in my mouth like salt, and I crouch down in the water and whisper it in her ear.
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Date: 2011-03-15 11:45 am (UTC)There's a man crouched beside a little girl, and I smile at them, but then I see what the others have dragged into the shallows in a net and feel my heart in my throat.
"In these times, names have power, and can be used. If you can find the creature's name, you may be able to command it answer you true," says a fair haired man, looking down into the net at something that's a serpent that's a fish that's a woman.
I know you. I know you.
"I know her name," I say. I can taste it in my mouth like salt, and I crouch down in the water and whisper it in her ear.