STANDARD DICLAIMER APPLIED.
Reaching Toward the Sun.
by: pixie paramount (6/27/2007 – 4/30/2007, 6:21 PM)
Disney's The Little Mermaid, Ariel-centric & afterward, a part of her yearned for something more
She's married now to the prince of her dream, her Eric, with a baby kicking inside of her and a heart aching in her chest.
This is all she's ever wanted and more but she still feels restless, still yearns for more. (The sky above is high and open and free.)
Her feet rarely touch the water most days, when she walks with Max along the shore, her toes wet and the sand sticks, and when she steps on a shell she bleeds red and it drip drip drips.
The cuts on her feet, the scrapes and bumps and bruises—walking is still so new, sometimes—and the child beating like a drum inside of her remind her that she's human, now. A dream come true, everything she's hoped and dreamed and yearned for.
(But, sometimes, late at night, as the baby inside her is restless and wanting, she'll sit by the open window and watch the sky bleed from black to red to that perfect blue—like Eric's eyes.
She'll hear the birds sing and it only takes so much of their singing to make her yearn, make her wish, make her think she was better off floating about like bubbles in the wind—up, high and away, in the sky.)
The taste of adventure leaves her as quickly as it came, those years before.
Walking along the beach, she listens to the sea and imagines the sky—so vast, so open, so much like home—and wishes she could sprout winger, just for one small moment, just so she could kiss the clouds and fly with the gulls.
Ariel wishes; her soul is restless; and she wonder if she'll ever be able to let go of wishing and wanting and waiting, someday, my dreams will all come to pass.
(Melody stirs and curls her chubby fingers around a lock of hair and tethers her here, to the earth, thicker than any chain or spell or oath.)
Author's Note: …So, uh, yeah. I think I ruined pretty much everyone's beloved childhood tale with this. You notice the subtle hints at the Little Mermaid II, yes? Those are intentional. – pixie paramount (10/22/2007, 8:19 PM)