mini-ficlet

[archet]

This is general weirdness but I promise, it made sense to me when I wrote it, I'd be interested if it does to anyone else. *g* I also promise that, amid the strangeness, this is Aragorn/Boromir.


Title: Trick of Starlight, Blush of Shadow
Author: Archet
Pairing: Aragorn/Boromir...I promise.
Rating: General
Summary: Sometimes impressions are left behind, echoes of memory.
Feedback: welcomed and appreciated


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He looks but does not see what he wishes for; instead he sees a trick of starlight, a blush of shadow. Yet, as I am of starlight and shadow, perhaps he does see. It is not for me to say, but only to linger in this place between the rise and fall of a dreaming man’s breath, to linger in the middle distance of day and night where he wakes and stares with wide eyes. His longing calls the name, and dutifully I seek him out for the one that was would do as much, would do much more, but the one that was has been lifted up, beyond this place.


I am not shade; I am the echo of memory, the echo of the power and glory, the goodness and the sorrow that once walked here. I am less than shade, and though he and another like him calls out the same name, looks with the same wide, searching eyes into the center of my shadow, I will not answer. I cannot. I possess no answers.


I am nothingness, I feel nothing, neither the push nor pull of their waking world, I am only the merest trace of the one that was. As a footfall leaves an impression in the grass, as am I, an impression only, a trick of starlight, a blush of shadow. I do not live, I do not exist, I linger and have no other purpose.


They call out for Boromir and I do not answer for I am not he, I am the nothingness that echoes with his memory that they sometimes, on starlit nights, can almost hear, can almost see.

Comments

[archet.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy that this touched you, I was working from the idea that even though the essence that is Boromir really has gone 'on', there is this indelible mark left behind..*cuddles you*

[ladybluelove.livejournal.com]

WOW! That was gorgeous...if you hadn't said it was a ficlet...I would have thought it was a poem!

So sad...I too am like Faramir and Aragorn...calling...looking...longing for our precious Boromir....

Now I want to cry.... :(

[archet.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! This really was more about Aragorn (and Faramir) missing Boromir, I'm glad that came across....don't cry! I'm sure that our boys will be reunited in the afterlife, ;)

[liars-dance.livejournal.com]

This isn't weird, it's beautiful and lyrical and haunting and ypu've made me cry, dammit... wonderful ficlet!

[archet.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't cry, but thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed this. Aragorn is missing his Boromir so, but one day they'll be together again, ;)

[zasjah.livejournal.com]

*wails*

That is just so incredibly eerily beautiful.
And you must have been reading my mind, because yesterday in the car my husband and I had a very serious conversation about where you go after you die, and we all agreed that the essence of a person will be around somewhere, on some plane of existence.

thank you for this wonderful ficlet.

[archet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Not sure what got me to thinking about it, but I'd watched a show about ghosts and it said sometimes things people think are 'ghosts' are really just impressions, like fingerprints, left behind by those who'd died. I thought it'd be interesting to write from the pov of Boromir's 'fingerprint' left behind.

The true essence of Boromir is in the afterlife waiting for Aragorn, ;)

[ribby.livejournal.com]

*sobs*

Oh, that was incredible--so bittersweet and lovely and painful...and what a wonderful way of looking at the afterlife! *sniffles*

Gorgeous--thank you!

~Kris

[archet.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Kris! Don't cry! *hugs* The true Boromir is in the afterlife waiting for Aragorn, but I was interested in the idea that he'd left behind a mark other than that left in the pages of history and in people's memories and it wouldn't leave me alone...thanks for reading, :)

[rotpunkt.livejournal.com]

And maybe it´s easier to see him through tears... this was so beautiful and sad, and like one of my co-readers, I feel it must be the truth about death.

[archet.livejournal.com]

Thank you! As I've replied to others, I believe that the true essence of Boromir is in the afterlife waiting for Aragorn *g*, but I've become attached to the idea that in passing he'd left behind an indelible mark...thanks for reading! ;)