Title: There are many names in history
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: no capital letters
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt:
"History repeats itself. Somebody says this.
History throws its shadow over the beginning, over the desktop,
over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters.
History is a little man in a brown suit
trying to define a room he is outside of.
I know history. There are many names in history
but none of them are ours."
-Little Beast, Richard Siken
he has walked through this book before, he knows this, he has been here and felt it and survived.
he always survives. a bit broken, shattered and torn, worn and tattered, but he survives and he walks on.
he has walked through this book before, salt and iron, blood and bone, tears and sweat and sunlight, sunlight, calm before the storm and clear skies after.
they ask him for the story, for the lesson, for what he has earned in the surviving.
he could tell them a thousand different things, a million, a different parable for every day of five thousand—longer, oh so much longer—years, for every name he's worn, every man woman child he's killed, every horse—pale as moonlight, as snow, as bone—he's ridden, every lie and truth he's told.
he's walked this road before. there is nowhere he hasn't been, nothing he hasn't done, and they ask his name, his story, want their piece of the myth.
it will not matter what he says. so he says everything, sheaths his sword, pats his pale horse, and walks into the sun.
he'll be back, of course.