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Odette ఒ "Etty"
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2013
08:00 pm
mute_pen
It's past dark, but when you need the outhouse, you need the outhouse.
Isabel picks her way across the yard of her father's house in the moonlight, hoping to sneak back into bed without waking him.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:13 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
They could.
Etty's certainly not going anywhere.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:14 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
And Nona doesn't want to leave her alone, and she's slept in worse places. So.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:15 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty doesn't fall sleep.
She doesn't usually have nightmares, but there's no time like the present.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:16 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
Nona does fall asleep.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:43 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty sits.
And cries, quietly, intermittently.
And at dawn she looks at the sun.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:44 pm (UTC)
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growcrooked
The change comes.
Her wing is whole.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
That's good.
At least she isn't in physical pain anymore.
She tries the wing.
She makes a few false starts, getting lift and then not knowing what to do with it -
And then she's in the air, wobbly but aloft, and she smooths her flight and does her level best to travel in a straight line,
away
.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)
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pythbox
It goes well enough, for a little while, and then - is that the lake up ahead?
It is.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:47 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty doesn't understand.
She turns towards the rising sun, flies
that way
, keeping it ahead of her -
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:52 pm (UTC)
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pythbox
And after a few minutes, she comes upon the lake again.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:53 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
She tries all the cardinal directions.
To approximately the same effect.
She half-lands, half-crashes into the lake in despair.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:56 pm (UTC)
From:
pythbox
The other swans are mildly startled by her splashy landing.
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Date:
2013-04-30 05:58 pm (UTC)
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mute_pen
Etty ignores them.
She floats.
She puts her head on her back.
She closes her eyes and she sleeps.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:13 pm (UTC)Etty's certainly not going anywhere.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 05:15 pm (UTC)She doesn't usually have nightmares, but there's no time like the present.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 05:43 pm (UTC)And cries, quietly, intermittently.
And at dawn she looks at the sun.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:44 pm (UTC)Her wing is whole.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)At least she isn't in physical pain anymore.
She tries the wing.
She makes a few false starts, getting lift and then not knowing what to do with it -
And then she's in the air, wobbly but aloft, and she smooths her flight and does her level best to travel in a straight line, away.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)It is.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:47 pm (UTC)She turns towards the rising sun, flies that way, keeping it ahead of her -
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 05:53 pm (UTC)To approximately the same effect.
She half-lands, half-crashes into the lake in despair.
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Date: 2013-04-30 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-30 05:58 pm (UTC)She floats.
She puts her head on her back.
She closes her eyes and she sleeps.