Author: Aldebaran
Title: Pendulum
Length: 100 words
Status: Complete
Date Written: March 17, 2008
Disclaimer: "Tin Man" and the characters associated with it belong to Imagiquest. This story was written for entertainment purposes only.
Author's Note: Written for the LJ Tinman100 Drabble community challenge prompt number 7, "safe".
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There were times when Glitch remembered that he had been more. Times he almost caught glimpses of himself, from the corner of his mind's eye, distantly. He often tried to follow, but never quite caught up to the person he had been.
Like now, hanging suspended above the ground. What passed for his mind filled with the periodic time of pendular motion, harmonic oscillation, potential energy converting to kinetic energy. Comforting equations, safe. He reached for them, certain he'd find his name written among the variables… but it wisped away. A new equation came… how can half ever be whole?