TM ~ Hindsight is always 20/20.

[on_holy_ground]

Paris.

A holy man stands in your way and asks that you cease and desist your attack on the city. You laugh of course, and then cut him down where he stands without giving it another thought. Taking his head and his quickening with one swing of your sword.

Looking back now, you realize that there were other ways you could have ended the confrontation. Ways that would not have led to your spending hundreds of years cloistered away in a musty church. Then you would not have ended up teaching mortals about something that you had never been interested in before you had stood before the gates of the city, and in doing so, making a mockery of your previous life.

Yes, looking back on things, it would have been better if you had simply ordered one of your men to take the man’s head instead. Then you could have made sure that you and the others were far enough away that the quickening would have been lost to the world forever.

Of course, you also realize that you couldn’t have possibly known what would happen with the man’s death, but that doesn’t stop you from replaying it in your mind with different outcomes. Learning from the past is always a good idea when it comes to preparing for the future after all.


OOC: Yes, I suck at this second person type of writing, but once in a while I like to give it a shot just the same. ;)

Comments

OOC

[ynez-castillo.livejournal.com]

You don't suck at all! Second person is hard! I think it fits here because Darius is so alienated now from everything that gave his life meaning before.

Re: OOC

[on-holy-ground.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And that's kind of why I chose to try it out with this topic. It seemed to make sense.

Re: OOC

[ynez-castillo.livejournal.com]

"You" instead of "I" - so simple-looking but so strange and hard. Second person is hard to sustain, I think. I see a lot of people write it referring to someone other than their character, and that isn't what it's about. One of Gabriel's recent prompts was second person and that inspired me to try to do one of Ynez's that way, but it's difficult, maybe because I don't practice it enough. Mostly I write her in third person, so the shift was interesting and distancing at the same time. I felt sort of pretentious, but I was aiming for a certain effect that I was reasonably satisfied with. It was something out of the ordinary for me and that's what I liked.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I don't often atriculate my thoughts about writing, but when I do, I can't shut up.

Re: OOC

[on-holy-ground.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I do that too, so no worries.

It was Gabriel's rep that inspired me to try it as well, and it's a lot harder than you would think. I tend to like first or third person most of the time, depending on the topic. This one however was shorter than most, but still look longer to write. *lol*

[immortalmacleod.livejournal.com]

You don't suck! It was great!

[on-holy-ground.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D