ML, "Transience" (for linebyline)
Jul. 20th, 2008 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonetreadAnother linebyline prompt ("transient beauty") bunny bit me. So have a McBeth drabble. (On the comm it's titled the same as the prompt, because of the rules of the comm, but I'm big on one-word titles, and I like this better, so I'm changing it for archival elsewhere (i.e. here and as a chapter of Twilight of the Dawn).
Transience
She was aging, as humans did. She stood before him, as stunningly beautiful as always, and getting just a little bit older every second, and somehow that made it, made her, even more beautiful.
Because it wouldn’t last, couldn’t last. Not forever. And because she was here now, with him, making the most of every second that it did.
Her mortality made everything a little scarier, yes. But knowing that it was possible she and her beauty and her life wouldn’t be here with him next year or next week or tomorrow – it made him cherish her all the more.
She was aging, as humans did. She stood before him, as stunningly beautiful as always, and getting just a little bit older every second, and somehow that made it, made her, even more beautiful.
Because it wouldn’t last, couldn’t last. Not forever. And because she was here now, with him, making the most of every second that it did.
Her mortality made everything a little scarier, yes. But knowing that it was possible she and her beauty and her life wouldn’t be here with him next year or next week or tomorrow – it made him cherish her all the more.
[ETA: Heh, 11:21. Yeah, I am such a geek.]
