Anywhere Is
A/N: Enya is brilliant, I swear it. Honest. And the songs are perfect for Redwall. This is my favourite, and it's from The Memory of Trees.
I walk the maze of moments
But everywhere I turn to
Begins a new beginning
But never finds a finish
He remembered the first time he heard her voice. Tied between those posts, he'd thought his last hours had come. She had saved him, and it wasn't the last time. He thought over all the adventures they'd had.
Now they had to begin a new beginning, but the old story wasn't finished. It never would be finished now.
I walk to the horizon
And there I find another
It all seems so surprising
And then I find that I know
He found another memory. One where they had gone down to the shore alone. He had told her that he loved her, and she had replied that she loved him too.
Why hadn't he remembered this before?
He knew why. It was a dream. A dream that would never be fulfilled now.
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
If we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
If you go to Dark Forest, you're gone forever. But if you go there when it's not your time, you'll never get there. You'll lose your way, and have to turn back.
If he went, they'd never be together.
Anywhere was.
The moon upon the ocean
Is swept around in motion
But without ever knowing
The reason for its flowing
The loveliness of the moonlit sea was lost on him. He stared around, unseeing, in grief.
Some minutes later he seemed to notice it properly for the first time. It was like him, in a way. He wandered the lands, from here to Mossflower, but he never knew why. She drove him on … no matter where her body was; her spirit was by him.
In motion on the ocean
The moon still keeps on moving
The waves still keep on waving
And I still keep on going
The moon still swept over the seas. The waves still drowned the shore.
And he still wandered, guided by her spirit.
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
If we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
Dark Forest had taken her from him. But he would never let her spirit go.
I wonder if the stars sign
The life that is to be mine
And would they let their light shine
Enough for me to follow
The Rose shone down, engulfing him in starlight. He blinked back the tears. He knew his path through life. The Rose would always guide him … like her spirit.
I look up to the heavens
But night has clouded over
No spark of constellation
No Vela no Orion
Night clouds clouded over the bright starlight. The Rose was gone, and with it her spirit. He felt the pangs of grieving pain again.
The shells upon the warm sands
Have taken from their own lands
The echo of their story
But all I hear is low sounds
He touched the shells softly. He imagined the stories they had to tell … and now they had a new tale. The bloody battle which had gone on just paces away from where he sat.
As pillow words are weaving
And willow waves are leaving
But should I be believing
That I am only dreaming
He dreamed of what might have been … now they could all have been happily contemplating the next day, or laughing and chatting with a friend, or teasing someone about scoffing half the supper.
He shook himself. He was dreaming, and he would never survive if he lived on dreams.
But should he believe that? Dreams were sad, happy, anything you wanted. But how he wished he wasn't dreaming.
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
If we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
If only he could go to her in Dark Forest … but he couldn't. Still, he would wait. He could wait. He knew how to, from long years of slavery, waiting for freedom. Now he would wait for Dark Forest.
All the caution he had ever had went to the winds at that moment. Who cared if he went to Dark Forest! He would be with his family, and her. What else would he ever need?
To leave the thread of all time
And let it make a dark line
In hopes that I can still find
The way back to the moment
Oh why couldn't he just forget? Make it something he had seen once in a diary - a long black line marking parts he couldn't remember.
Do you want to forget her
? demanded a voice in his head.No, of course he didn't. But it was so painful.
I took the turn and turned to
Begin a new beginning
Still looking for the answer
I cannot find the finish
He was to start a new beginning. Honour his promise. But he was looking, always looking for the answer to his pain.
He knew he would never find the end of the story until he arrived at Dark Forest. But that was fine with his life … he was going to search, for her.
It's either this or that way
It's one way or the other
It should be one direction
It could be on reflection
He had a choice of ways. One was to carry on with life … for her. Or the other was to take the easy way out now … to kill himself.
The coward's way out would be to kill himself now. But never let it be said he was a coward.
He would carry on with life. For her.
The turn I have just taken
The turn that I was making
I might be just beginning
I might be near the end
His path through life was going to be hard. But he would have made it anyway.
He was just beginning his life now.
Or was he just ending it? He would never know.
But he would go through with it. For her.
The mouse stands up and brushes himself down. He has carved something into a stone.
Martin and Rose
Always and ever
Ever and always