AN: Because of a discussion about Raj and Karma (which somehow got shortened to Raj/Karma), I had to write a metaphysical, abstract Raj/Karma fic. Here it is.
He always bowed to her when he felt the strings pull. He could sense the fabric of his life was frayed at the edges and it was up to her to weave them together in any way she wished. She could pull him into a tangle of lies and confusion that would tailspin his life. She could make him too proud of his degree and his education and weave his soul into the body of the flea. She had him in the palm of her hand like the favored plaything of a child. He always bowed to her when she pulled at the very threads of his being.
So, when she came to him at night, in his dreams, he would bow to her. She would smile with a sort of frightening grace and he would try to open his mouth to speak his high regard for her. She would hush him, telling him that no words were needed from a servant so faithful as he. He had proved himself so well in actions that words were nothing to her. She let the ephemeral, ghostly blue of her eyes speak for her. She didn't need words from him.
He trembled in her presence; her ruthless glory and all-encompassing pity. She sent men through eons of slavery for lording over others, she took pity on the enslaved and gave them a fast and breath-taking freedom as cheetahs or leopards, animals that roamed wild without constraint or fear. She took the very Lives she controlled and gifted Life to those who lived by her rule. She punished the wicked and blessed the grieved and suffering. He knew that, even if he could speak to women, he would have been speechless, breathless, awed in her presence until he existed no longer.
One night, reclining on a bed of moss by the very River of Time, watching centuries flow by like silver liquid, bumping over the jagged rocks called "Age", "War", "Drought", and "Catastrophe", and gliding over the smooth rocks of "Plenty", "Youth", "Growth", and "Peace", she asked him if he wished to stay with her forever. He didn't have to speak but kissed her cool, cerulean hand and smiled. Together, they could rule for all eternity.
Originally posted on Livejournal 8 April 2009.