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scrivespinster) wrote2019-09-06 11:56 pm
scrivespinster) wrote2019-09-06 11:56 pm
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Ficlet: Dominion
Title: Dominion
Fandom: Sunless Skies
Characters and pairings: The Sky-Captain
Wordcount: 100
Rating: PG
POV: Third-person
Summary: Things done in desperation are not always done well.
Note: This contains spoilers for one particular nightmare track (specifically, You Are Not Yourself). Written for the prompt Came back wrong.
When she sees the crewman fall, all she knows is she cannot lose another.
“Don’t you dare die,” she hisses, and other half-conscious things, not plea but command. The tears burn too hot on her face. The words curl like smoke in her throat. Somewhere distant, someone tells the others to look away. And beneath her hands, his heartbeat steadies; he draws a whistling breath, opens his eyes.
Shining, those eyes are, blank and bright as liquid gold; he smiles like a Sequencer greeting his clockwork god for the first time.
“Thank you, Captain,” he says, and everything is wrong.
Fandom: Sunless Skies
Characters and pairings: The Sky-Captain
Wordcount: 100
Rating: PG
POV: Third-person
Summary: Things done in desperation are not always done well.
Note: This contains spoilers for one particular nightmare track (specifically, You Are Not Yourself). Written for the prompt Came back wrong.
When she sees the crewman fall, all she knows is she cannot lose another.
“Don’t you dare die,” she hisses, and other half-conscious things, not plea but command. The tears burn too hot on her face. The words curl like smoke in her throat. Somewhere distant, someone tells the others to look away. And beneath her hands, his heartbeat steadies; he draws a whistling breath, opens his eyes.
Shining, those eyes are, blank and bright as liquid gold; he smiles like a Sequencer greeting his clockwork god for the first time.
“Thank you, Captain,” he says, and everything is wrong.