Title: elegiac
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Rating: T
Word Count: 88
Spoilers: Revelations
Beta: Miri (miri_d)
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Laura Roslin
A/N: The title of a ficlet at SI reminded me I had written and not posted this. Title's uncapitalised for a (synaesthetic) purpose.
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Be. She asks quietly what,
howls why to the vacuum.
No air, no sky here.
Prophet. False words
leading to an endless nothing.
This is not what she foretold.
Bleak death, for those who were here.
Bright death full of red blood and sparks
chases at the heels of everyone else.
Even the ones who are too young to know it,
those stifled at birth or before
or hunted after,
just for what they are.
She'd saved some, but despairs
at what she cannot do for the others.