I'm back from the dead!
So college really limited my ability to keep updating my fanfictions, but now I've graduated and have an amazing job in my field! Yay!
Also that means I have time to write again! Double yay!
Shout out to my friend Nemmysis, whose awesome Nawn piece 'Peaceful Love' inspired this fic! And to my friend Explorer of the Unknown for beta reading for me. I highly recommend checking out both Nemmysis and Explorer of the Unknown's works too!
Cover photo by Nemmysis.
And without further ado, Nawn.
The old saying was that birds of a feather flocked together, but they were hardly people that you'd consider to be birds of a feather. She fancied herself to possess psychic powers, and believed she could read a person's soul or 'aura' as she called it, just by looking at them. He, on the other hand, adored the idea of a fantasy world, but didn't believe that they actually extended beyond the pages of his favourite books.
That's why fantasy was called fantasy, after all, and not reality.
But perhaps they were only so different on the surface.
When it came down to it, they both craved a world in which there was more than just the boring and often depressing reality in which they lived.
Their biggest difference was that she was naive enough to believe that it actually existed.
Or perhaps that was what true bravery looked like. To blindly hope and believe in something that everybody else knew wasn't real.
As she sat with her eyes closed, a wild squirrel hopped up to sit on her knee and wild birds flocked to perch on her shoulders, and he couldn't help comparing her to a fairytale princess, what with the way that wild animals always seemed to be drawn to her.
But just like the mythical beings from whence the fairytales were given their name, they weren't real either.
"There is magic in the world, you know," She said softly, opening her wide gray eyes to meet his gaze.
She did that more often than he'd like to admit - out of the blue, just bring up exactly what was on his mind. Her eerie accuracy was always slightly unsettling, but he'd long since resolved to believe that their thought patterns were just similar, and perhaps they had come to know one another well enough to share a thought just by looking at one another.
It wasn't magic and it wasn't telepathy. It was just proof that they spoke the same language.
"Was I thinking too loudly?" He snarked, rolling his eyes.
She'd told him time and time again that it was all over his aura - his fear of believing in anything, and his belief that he was doing others a service by putting down their beliefs too. He was afraid to get his hopes up, for fear of disappointing himself.
If you don't believe in anything you can't be wrong about it, he'd reply.
That's true, but by that logic, you can't be right about it either, she'd always retort.
"Of course you'll never see it if you don't believe it's there," Dawn told him. "If you only focus on people's flaws, you'll be blinded to their value as a person. If you believe you're going to have a bad day, of course the bad things will stand out more than the good things that happen to you. If you focus on believing that life has nothing more than what you can see, you'll be blinded to the magic that does touch your life."
With a small shake of his head, he rolled his eyes and returned to the novel he'd been reading. Magic wasn't real, and no matter what she said, that wasn't going to change.
With a shrug, she closed her eyes and went back to meditating with her abundance of small animal friends.
Perhaps they were birds of a feather, just perched in different trees.
Despite his beliefs, or lack thereof, he could not deny that she seemed downright ethereal at times. Most times, actually. And although she believed in a world of magic and myth, she was still a flesh and blood person, which made her the closest he'd ever get to the existence of real magic.
Perhaps that was why he liked her so much.
She represented everything he'd ever wanted, but was just too afraid to believe in for himself.
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And for anyone following any of my other stories, they should be getting more frequent updates in the next few months! I know there was concern for some of my stories because people thought I'd abandoned them, but fear not!
I am back with a vengeance!