Post by tokogawa on Jan 12, 2008 21:11:57 GMT -5
Camellia
Author's Notes: He had always loved his wife,but now she was gone.He had seen her off to the other world. Yet ,in this small girl,her eyes frosted over with blindness, he could still see her and feel a warmth he had'nt in many long,cold years. P.S. Camellia is the genus of plant named tea.
Chapter I: Long Kisses
" Now let us make a vow together.We shall share the same food,share the same stengths,share the same tastes.We shall be of one mind,we shall observe the vows together;I shall be the Sama,you the Rigveda;I shall be the Upper world,you the earth; I shall be the Sukhilam,you the holder.Togther we shall live and beget children,and other riches thou ,Oh,sweet-worded girl."
Those were the words I said to her;so formal and also so beautiful.There was nothing and is nothing so warm in all the world.It followed the seven steps we made around the fire; expressing our love in the wake of Agnideva.
Soon,the wedding was over,she stepped on the stone and a large feast began like nothing the Fire-nation had seen in a long time.People laughed and drank to their hearts' content ,enjoying food from all corners of the world.I was'nt there to enjoy them.I enjoyed a better time as I walked with my new wife.
Her eyes shown like silver stars in the moon light and her face,like the petals of a camellia,was reddened by the heat of summer and patches of make-up smoothed onto her skin.Redder still were her lips;lined to broaden their fullness.Around her body,the curving lines of her form were spun over with garments of crimson.In short she appeared as a blossom before me.However her spirit was too strong to ever fall,her soul too kind to ever be full of thorns.
" Ai Luo", she always called me by that personal name,while everyone else saw me as Iroh," how are you?"
" Fine,I'm just fine."
" You've been quiet all night long and barely said a word to anyone today."
" I guess I can't think of anything to say. Illah,we're married now and I don't really have a word for us other than married.
" Well, Ai, you laugh a little more than you used to ,but still you're too serious .I can't have a husband who's constantly acting like there's a stick up his ass.Even though, you're looking sexy as hell in that suit."
" Were'nt we just having a solumn heart to heart conversation?"
" As I remember it,you did'nt know what to say."
" See what you're doing?Even now you're twisting my words.Illah,you..."
And once again she caught me in one of those long kisses;those unbelieveably cruel ways of getting me to shut up.However,I can't say I did'nt always enjoy them.That was the way we began the night and headed into it;the Upper world and the earth.
Author's Notes: He had always loved his wife,but now she was gone.He had seen her off to the other world. Yet ,in this small girl,her eyes frosted over with blindness, he could still see her and feel a warmth he had'nt in many long,cold years. P.S. Camellia is the genus of plant named tea.
Chapter I: Long Kisses
" Now let us make a vow together.We shall share the same food,share the same stengths,share the same tastes.We shall be of one mind,we shall observe the vows together;I shall be the Sama,you the Rigveda;I shall be the Upper world,you the earth; I shall be the Sukhilam,you the holder.Togther we shall live and beget children,and other riches thou ,Oh,sweet-worded girl."
Those were the words I said to her;so formal and also so beautiful.There was nothing and is nothing so warm in all the world.It followed the seven steps we made around the fire; expressing our love in the wake of Agnideva.
Soon,the wedding was over,she stepped on the stone and a large feast began like nothing the Fire-nation had seen in a long time.People laughed and drank to their hearts' content ,enjoying food from all corners of the world.I was'nt there to enjoy them.I enjoyed a better time as I walked with my new wife.
Her eyes shown like silver stars in the moon light and her face,like the petals of a camellia,was reddened by the heat of summer and patches of make-up smoothed onto her skin.Redder still were her lips;lined to broaden their fullness.Around her body,the curving lines of her form were spun over with garments of crimson.In short she appeared as a blossom before me.However her spirit was too strong to ever fall,her soul too kind to ever be full of thorns.
" Ai Luo", she always called me by that personal name,while everyone else saw me as Iroh," how are you?"
" Fine,I'm just fine."
" You've been quiet all night long and barely said a word to anyone today."
" I guess I can't think of anything to say. Illah,we're married now and I don't really have a word for us other than married.
" Well, Ai, you laugh a little more than you used to ,but still you're too serious .I can't have a husband who's constantly acting like there's a stick up his ass.Even though, you're looking sexy as hell in that suit."
" Were'nt we just having a solumn heart to heart conversation?"
" As I remember it,you did'nt know what to say."
" See what you're doing?Even now you're twisting my words.Illah,you..."
And once again she caught me in one of those long kisses;those unbelieveably cruel ways of getting me to shut up.However,I can't say I did'nt always enjoy them.That was the way we began the night and headed into it;the Upper world and the earth.