Touching the Stars by Moreth

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Fanwork Notes

Written for SWG's B2MEM prompt, Day 1.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Learning to make a fire...

Major Characters:

Major Relationships:

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges: B2MeM 2009

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 16 May 2009 Updated on 16 May 2009

This fanwork is complete.

Chapter 1

Many thanks to pandemonium_213 for character names!

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White gold sparks scattered through the air. Enchanted, he took a firmer grip on the rocks and struck them together once more.

Gilya was right, the stars also lived in the rocks. Akâron smiled.

At his feet, one spark found a dry leaf. A wisp of smoke attracted his attention, and he bent to examine it. The first pale flickers of flame showed at the edge of spreading black ash. Intrigued, he found another leaf and held it to the flame. And so, piece by piece, he fed this strange, new thing and wondered.

Hesitantly, he reached to touch it.


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This elvish "Quest for Fire" is a wonderful gem that looks at two primitive elves of the "Pleistocene."  

Gilya was right, the stars also lived in the rocks.

That line...the stars also lived in rocks...is perfection: primeval but very elvish. 

Then Akâron reaches out to touch the flame and we have another implied -- and painful -- discovery there.

Well done, Moreth!