Title: 20 Different Ways To Rise With The Music
Character(s): All
Rating: K+
Genre: Varied; All
Summary: This is a series of oneshots concerning characters of the 39 Clues, written in stanza form, with 4 lines per stanza, as a way of telling each story. Characters will be randomly picked and are not in any specific order.
Multi-Chapter.
The previous character was Jonah. The line "His poor, poor child" means Jonah's own brand of music. It's wonderful how you can manipulate certain words to mean different things.
For the first one who reviewed with the correct answer (well, half of a correct answer, anyway), I'll be doing a review exchange.
Chapter: 2/20
~ The Second Movement: Waltz of the Rose ~
And so it begins,
The elegant dance
As ladies all sway
And gentlemen obey.
She sits alone,
Above them all,
With proud eyes
And timeless grace.
But years pass by
And she will soon fade:
Lights out, all dim
A silent requiem.
She hears a single,
Solitary voice
Threading through music,
And becomes one with dance.
They spin away,
A whirl of bright dress
Such vibrancy of life
That slips through her hands.
Time is not forgiving;
That much she knows.
It will take, without conscience,
All she holds dear.
She does not regret,
But she will wonder;
She does not hate
This accursed fate.
But it is done!
Oh, steal her now
From the clutches of this
Encroaching pain.
And so the rose grows,
Outshines them all
With shield of thorns
Blessed, unsurpassed.
Rose petals
Lose their life –
The dancers are gone
And the waltz ends.
