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wintersday ([personal profile] wintersday) wrote2020-10-22 10:30 pm

Fic: Time and Tide

Title: Time and Tide
Fandom: Homestuck
Major Characters/Pairings: Feferi, Aradia
Wordcount: 100
Rating: PG
POV: Third person
Summary: What happens when it ends?



Feferi’s first memory is a song – like whalesong, but deeper, slower, the lullaby of the monster that rocked her in uncountable arms.

She’s dead now, ghost-impressions of salt and sea breeze in her hair, and outside this sunlit bubble, that music surrounds her. Her mother’s people built these dreams. It’s hardly strange she feels at home here.

Beside her, Aradia leans against the ship’s railing, humming along with a song she shouldn’t be able to hear.

“What happens when it ends?” Feferi asks. Aradia grins.

“Think of it this way,” she says. “Life is a tidepool. Out there? The ocean.”