31 days: August 8, "You shimmer like words I barely hear"

[tarigwaemir]

DeWolfe Apts., on the Feast of St. Dominic

I went to the library today after work, and borrowed: Going Postal (the latest Discworld novel, finally), the complete poems of Baudelaire in the original French and in translation (I've wanted to read Baudelaire ever since T.S. Eliot), Five Red Herrings (the next Wimsey mystery) and Sputnik Sweetheart (to see just how strange "typical" Murakami is). I ventured for the first time to the East Asian literature wing in Widener stacks. Normally I go to Yenching for East Asian books; I was surprised to notice that Widener's collection was rather nice if a bit small in comparison to the Western literature shelves. I abhor redundancy in everything except libraries and genomes. Libraries ought to be redundant, the more so the better.

In a fit of resolution-making, I've decided that weekdays are for reading (and writing 31_days themes), while weekends are for looking up papers (I need to figure out a thesis proposal someday after all) and studying hanja. How long this resolution will last is debatable. But at least the reading part will be pleasant. Speaking of which, I managed to update the reading blog again. Am rather proud of myself, although a bit scandalized by how little I've read this past month. >_<

This fic hit me in one of those inexplicable bursts of inspiration, and I honestly didn't know I was even capable of writing something like it.

All they need
Dedicated to faeryetale, who writes Syaoran and Sakura so beautifully

They have never said, "I love you." Four years since he returned to Japan, older, quieter, harder; four years spent side by side in a companionship so close and casual that they seem incapable of transmuting it to something more. But they look at each other with their hearts in their hands, and though their fingers never touch, they are less than a hair's width apart.

He does not consider her his ideal of feminine beauty, nor does he think her perfect. What he does know is that they can sit together on the swings in the old neighborhood playground on a winter morning and watch the first snowflakes fall. He does not need to say,

Isn't it beautiful?

She does not need to answer,

Yes, beautiful.

He does not need to wonder,

Who is there to notice the unique shape of each and every crystal?

She does not need to reply,

We are, for that is magic: to notice what passes others by.

Instead, they smile shyly at each other, rocking back and forth on those children's swings, and Sakura sticks out the tip of her tongue to catch a drop of snow. He lets his hand fall and brush against hers; that is all they need.

END

Yours &c.

Comments

[lazulisong.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEE.

[troisroyaumes]

Whee, glad you liked! XD

[memlu.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is lovely. <3 <3

[troisroyaumes]

Yay, thanks for commenting! (Your Yoh/Anna fics for these themes are gorgeous, by the way; I can't say it enough.)

[aetherangelette.livejournal.com]

Write on what people like and you get responses xP

I know, I'm amazingly brilliant.

I'd think she WAS perfect in her eyes. AHEM.

[troisroyaumes]

Pssh! You said I should write E/T, but I wrote S/S instead. Merong~ ^_^

[cynic-in-charge.livejournal.com]

My heart, it died a little when I read this. <3333333333333333333

[troisroyaumes]

Wah, glad you liked! Hopefully your heart recovered quickly? XD

[ravenel.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[troisroyaumes]

Thank you! ^_^

[lavenderherring.livejournal.com]

That was lovely! Sakura and Syaoran's relationship is very quiet and shy... and I can see him returning harder and more serious than ever before. I can imagine it very well. That comfortable silence thing is very much... yes. I can see them outgrowing that tense babbling-stage they were in before. It actually kind of happens over the course of the series, in some ways.

[troisroyaumes]

Thanks so much for your lovely comments! Yes, this is the way I've always seen them: quietly inseparable. ^_^

[noble-scarlet.livejournal.com]

oh, this is heartwrenching, and beautiful, and somehow manages to be happy and sad at the same time.

[troisroyaumes]

I'm very glad you liked! (I really liked your CCS pieces for 31_days myself. ^_^)

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

<3 You are beautiful (and so is this.)

[troisroyaumes]

::blushes:: Thank you! ^_^

[derlirum.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous. ^^ Much love.

[troisroyaumes]

Very glad you liked! Thanks for commenting. ^_^

[fadedcliche.livejournal.com]

I'm not even a CCS fan, really, and I'm getting all fangirly at this...

*FANGIRLS!*

Yes, it's a verb.

It's been too long since I've checked up on Discworld...

[troisroyaumes]

Danica! Yay, glad you liked. And yes, "to fangirl" is a verb in my book, considering how often I do it. XD

[faeryetale.livejournal.com]

o___o I love it! It's SO them; it really perfectly captures their relationship. Wahhhhhh. Thank you. (am not worthy. o___o)

[troisroyaumes]

Meemee! You're back~! XD I'm so glad you liked the fic. (And of course you're worthy. Your Syaoran/Sakura fics are my favorite~ ^_^)