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on_holy_groundI had a feeling something wasn’t quite right from the moment his body fell to the ground in front of me. There was a sense of power gathering that I had never seen or felt before when taking a quickening, and then when it hit me, it drove me to my knees with just the sheer force of it. I knew then that he had been old, older by far than I am even now. When the quickening swept through my body it seemed to seek out every part of me, and I felt this intense pressure in my head as though it was going to simply explode. I found myself screaming from the intensity, and it seemed to go on forever.
When it was finally over I was on my hands and knees with my forehead resting on the ground, and I was not the least bit surprised to see a drop of blood slide from my nose to stain the grass before me. It was then that I realized something was very different. That in the final rush of the quickening, something had happened that sent this wash of feeling through me that I couldn’t begin to explain at first, for it was like nothing I had ever experienced. It was peace.
I found out after the fact that his name had been Emrys, the oldest living among our kind at that time. All that I am today is because of this man, and for him, I am eternally thankful.
When it was finally over I was on my hands and knees with my forehead resting on the ground, and I was not the least bit surprised to see a drop of blood slide from my nose to stain the grass before me. It was then that I realized something was very different. That in the final rush of the quickening, something had happened that sent this wash of feeling through me that I couldn’t begin to explain at first, for it was like nothing I had ever experienced. It was peace.
I found out after the fact that his name had been Emrys, the oldest living among our kind at that time. All that I am today is because of this man, and for him, I am eternally thankful.
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:19 am (UTC)Did you get to collect $200?
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:24 am (UTC)Wait, is this another reference to this card you keep telling me about?
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:26 am (UTC)In a manner of speaking.
I am going to have to give you a crash course on the 20th and 21st century one of these days.
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 06:32 am (UTC)That depends what uses you have found.
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 06:42 am (UTC)Don't you want to know what sort of dysfunctional care bare you are?
Wes refused to post his, so I posted it for him.
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Date: 2005-01-13 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 02:04 am (UTC)Bondage bear scares you?
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Date: 2005-01-14 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:29 am (UTC)Pffft.
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Date: 2005-01-14 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:39 am (UTC)But never in a priest's journal.
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Date: 2005-01-14 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:56 am (UTC)These are a few of my favorite things...?
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Date: 2005-01-14 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:29 am (UTC)I am sure I could ask you worse.
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Date: 2005-01-14 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 06:39 am (UTC)You tempt me so.
But I suppose that would not well display my gratitude.
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Date: 2005-01-14 06:41 am (UTC)[locked]
Date: 2005-01-14 06:43 am (UTC)For speaking to Wes.
He has long needed someone's counsel.
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Date: 2005-01-14 07:09 am (UTC)He has a problem opening up, although I assume he is much better at it with you than he is with me. Although given what I have been able to get out of him, and from what I have read, he has had a rather hard time of it so far in his life.
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Date: 2005-01-14 07:14 am (UTC)He is very critical of himself.
Needlessly, as far as I am concerned.
I might be biased.
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Date: 2005-01-14 07:22 am (UTC)It will take quite a bit of work to get him to see himself in a different light.
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Date: 2005-01-14 07:24 am (UTC)I rather did kill his father too quickly.
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Date: 2005-01-14 01:08 pm (UTC)Re: [locked]
Date: 2005-01-14 09:19 pm (UTC)It is downright offensive how painless his death was.
I find myself most vexed by it, as I have not been in years. After all, dead is dead. But the more I learn, the more I wish I had taken the time to do it right.
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Date: 2005-01-14 09:45 pm (UTC)Re: [locked]
Date: 2005-01-14 09:48 pm (UTC)No, not particularly.
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Date: 2005-01-14 10:03 pm (UTC)Re: [locked]
Date: 2005-01-19 02:19 am (UTC)Oh yes.
I just wish I had made it last longer.
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Date: 2005-01-13 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 07:55 pm (UTC)