My entry for the Quickie Facebook 24 hour mini-contest on the DAYDverse community on lifejournal. Prompt was: 'journey'. Please be kind with my English, it's not my mother tongue. I still encourage you to hint at errors. (Thanks to sopaltenbass :-) )
This piece was inspired by Mintcloud's story Through the storm which, unfortunately, is unfinished, and liebedance's Not knowing is the Hardest [daydverse. livejournal. com/9223. html and daydverse. livejournal. com/105660. html-remove the free spaces in the link].
Summary: Last words are hard to come by, even if you are fluid in a handfull of languages. Michael Corner writes his farewell letter to Terry Boot. Set in Thanfiction's DAYDverse.
Disclaimer: Terry and Michael were created by JKR and given background and filled with life by Thanfiction (check out my favourites for Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness)
Spoilers: 20 Random Facts about Michael J Corner
Terry,
if you read this, you are alive and I am not.
…
mon frère,
je l'espère que …
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Dies ist ein Abschiedsbrief, a last letter to you to whom I haven't written to for a long time now as we did not need this form of communication. I never wanted to be so cruel and leave you behind with an empty half of your mind – because that is what it was to me – but I cannot stand … why does it have to hurt so much, cur – the six questions to define human action, quis quid quomodo quando ubi CUR
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To Tiresius Wolfric Boot
I am going to undertake my last journey, as I cannot bear any more of the pain my father's death brought upon me. You were my missing brother, half of my soul, Seelengefährte, our philia was more than I ever expected to have in another human being.
I would like to say that I feel guilty leaving you behind but right now all I think is Stop the pain, the anguish, la douleur, dolorem, den Schmerz, and leave me, life.
I have no more words now.
Te amo.
Michael Julius Corner
some words:
Abschiedsbrief - farewell letter (German)
je l'espère que - I hope that (French)
Seelengefährte - soul mate (German)
philia - love/friendship (Greek)
quis quid quomodo quando ubi cur - who what how when where why (Latin)
la douleur, dolorem/dolor, den Schmerz/der Schmerz - pain (French, Latin, German)