So this is for the Romantic Drabble Challenge at Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges Forum. The pairing I got was Neville/Luna and the prompts were 'owl' and 'moon'. Enjoy!
Owl's Howl:
In the light of the moon, the owl howls. Silently, inside, it cries for something that's not quite right.
Something that's just a tiny bit perfectly wrong. Something that happened…and maybe it shouldn't have, if it was going to end like this under the light of the moon. The moon was a sacred thing to them, so it fits that they end beneath it. For they began on a night of death that was a night of new life. They began as a battle died, and they died as a moon rose and the owls hooted in the hills.
It couldn't have lasted. Night creatures don't trespass into day and day cannot into night. He was a daytime soul, grounded, down-to-earth, and she was an owl-eyed nocturnal, and their worlds were just too different to stay as one.
And as they walk away in different directions, the moon looks down on an owl howling over opposite footprints.
What did you think? Please review!
Love always,
Lily