[Yami no Matsuei] Hisoka/Tsuzuki drabble for Nestra

[thuviaptarth]

and the rain    the rain quiet as a heartbeat    mist closes its hand on him    he curls up safe as a bird or a baby or a stone    safe as a worm in the heart of a white, white rose    petals shiver and shudder and crisp    blackening from invisible flame    he can hear the roses screaming    (they sound like children)    he could always hear them screaming    (I didn't I didn't I don't want to)    rain blurs the world clammy-cold

      the warmth is gone before he realizes someone is touching his face

the world clears

      idiot, hisoka says. i'm right here.

Comments

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I thought it was lovely. And the emotional weight, and reassurance, and loadedness of the last half-dozen words is quite something, especially when put against the lyrical pain of safe as a worm in the heart of a white, white rose.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

:) The white rose is a canon reference, but I'm glad it works without context.

*cough* I don't want to be the person who never stops pestering people to try things they're just not interested in, but--you can Netflix Descendants of Darkness. Or at least the first three discs. (It's a 4-disc series and they were missing the last when I checked.)

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

The white rose is a canon reference, but I'm glad it works without context.

Well, duh! and it worked fine -- white as emblem of purity, and it made me think of Blake's "Rose, thou art sick," too.

you can Netflix Descendants of Darkness. Or at least the first three discs. (It's a 4-disc series and they were missing the last when I checked.)

Oooooooooooh. Yet another reason to try Netflix -- I think we might just cancel the cable altogether and spend the money on Netflix instead (a lot cheaper, too). -- Please don't hesitate to recommend stuff -- even if it's something I've never heard of, I like hearing you write about new things and I'm pretty much game to try anything once, or even a couple times (it took at least 2-3 tries for me to get really into AtS, after all).

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I must have gotten confused; I thought you'd posted on Netflixing something recently, which is why I mentioned it. They do have Disc 4 now, which is good, since it's the best one (but partly because of the way the others lead up to it).

I think you'd like this one, once you got over some of the silliness of the genre conventions, and especially once it gets going; like a lot of manga and anime, it starts out silly and gets darker deeper in.

I am ridiculously attached to the central couple in this one.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like this one, once you got over some of the silliness of the genre conventions, and especially once it gets going; like a lot of manga and anime, it starts out silly and gets darker deeper in.

Hee, well, you've certainly hit my kinks on everything you've recommended in this genre so far.