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Nano Day 30+317.

The whys seemed to surround her, slipping from everyone's mouth. Anwen barely listened, wearing her grief and shock like a cape. The best thing was to keep busy, people said – and she kept busy, mechanically, sorting through drawers and boxes and packing those things she treasured and those things Id had treasured into crates for the journey.

Osian continued as if nothing had changed, and Anwen looked on him with a quiet despair. He was the only lightness through the clouds, but there was no way for her to smile at him.

In an act of kindness, the coroner gave a verdict of accidental death. He had been cleaning the gun. An accidenta
SpiritsNot all the dead are blessed with wings.

He sees them. Oh, he sees them – passing by, feathers held about them like cloaks and shields, or beating into the air with the joy of a bird. He sees them with their feet an inch above the ground as if they were held up by light itself, with their quivering wings pressing like vaulted arches into the sky.

His shoulders are conspicuously bare.

He stands, leaning close to the bar, but never touching. Is he here because he is condemned to this place, or because he wants to be here? Even he cannot tell any more. His soul seems magnetised to this arena of transitory lives and emotions, and he stand

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Tiddler, all sweetness and light. Another old photo...
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~AriaAillehg Mar 12, 2010
Perfect! :Aww:
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=Aconitum-Napellus Mar 14, 2010  Professional Writer
Thank you :XD:
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~AriaAillehg Mar 15, 2010
Welcome! :D
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=Muse-of-Thor Mar 11, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
And looking like Robert de Niro :XD: man, I love your cats
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=Aconitum-Napellus Mar 12, 2010  Professional Writer
Thanks :XD:
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