IN LOVING MEMORY
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of this If I did we d have a bloody series by now. My cat Liberty is negotiating for the rights.(She'll probably trade them for catnip)
AN This is all typed up,but I 'm only adding new chapters once a week. (Because I can) It reads better as a whole,but its too long not to break up.Feedback is loved.And yes Chapter One is named for the tarot card
Chapter 1 Hanged man
He loved her.
He had always loved her.
She didn't belong to him,it wasn't that kind of love. But it was love.
Glitch lay in the grass quietly contemplating as evening enfolded him. It was important his addled brain remember that fact,from the day those lavender eyes had locked into his,he(who ever he was) had loved her.And he failed her.Glitch shot an irritated glance toward Cain. Did all tin men snore so loudly?It was hard enough trying to remember in silence.On his other side,Dg was just starting to drift off.She was also beginning to shiver. Glitch got up and placed his tattered jacket across her.
"Here,its been through a bit,but its warm,"he smiled,closing his eyes. "I wish I could remember what.It must have been nice once "
"Its nice the way it is." DG murmured in reply.Her true meaning was veiled,but Glitch caught it.
"Glitch"
"HMM"
"What if the mystic man wont see us"
"Of course he will,Kitten.He has answers and answers need questions"
"I hope you're right"
Dg wouldn't ask Cain,wouldn't show uncertainty to anyone but Glitch.The girl with the lavender eyes was the same way She was upside down when they met.No,he was upside down. Ostracized and ridiculed by the others his age,they ambushed him and hung him from a tree.
"Lets see you think your way out of that"
Thinking with all the blood rushing to his head was almost as hard as thinking with half a brain.("At least I think its half a brain" Glitch told a skeptical Raw once) By using basic mechanical principals and his white shirt,he was able to pull himself right side up.He'd just caught hold of a branch to steady himself when a soft voice startled him "What are you doing"
"Wha-ahh"
He slipped and was right back where he started.
In all 8 annuals of his life,he'd never been so happy to have remembered his red and black striped undershirt.
"Its an experiment" He nodded with all the confidence he wasn't feeling.
The lavender eyes narrowed.
"Yeah see,I gotta get down with out landing on my head"
"Have you figured it out yet?" She had decided to play along. She was intrigued.
"Nenlethel" He hadn't meant to answer in the language of the ancients,it had just rolled out.He blushed. "I mean,one minute" He swung his lithe body and caught the sleeve of his white shirt,righting himself."Here we go." He smiled triumphantly.
She nodded,impressed. "Now what"
"Now,I get a nice friendly girl to untie my ankles." He hinted enticingly.
She just stared. "Wouldn't that be cheating?" She asked fiercely "Course not! The idea is not to land on my head.Ive accomplished that part myself"
The lavender eyes turned skeptical. "I don't know. I wouldn't want to ruin your experiment. And I don't even know you"
"Its my experiment and I say its fine. As to our never meeting,Ive never been to Finaqua"
She stared fiercely as a blush crept up her cheeks. He merely smiled.
"Do you know what Finaqua means?" She asked curiously "Magical waters" He replied smoothly."Ive been learning the language of the ancients for years now." His smile faltered,but his tone remained confident."I can teach you some if you'd like.Though truth be told, translations are easier If I were right side up"
She smiled warmly and untied him.
"Thank you Majesty" He bowed.
"You needn't call me that." She blushed "But you are"
"I know but my name is..."