Lighting a candle
Apr. 2nd, 2011 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
1stmacleod
He may be across parallel worlds now, but Connor never forgets Heather's birthday. The only time he's ever missed it was the ten years he was in Sanctuary, physically unable to do anything about it. He hopes Kairos won't mind his little memorial ritual, but his love for Heather doesn't dull his love for her, and vice versa. This year, he doesn't bother with a church. There are places in the mountains around his current home more beautiful than any man-made temple of God, and he thinks Heather would love the place. He puts a candle and matches in his pocket, his sword in his coat (it's habit), and heads out the door on foot.
In a quiet grove just out of view of the strange town where they live, he digs a little spot and gets the candle settled firmly upright, and lights it. He kneels there listening to the chill spring wind in the trees, and feels more at peace than he has since the demon with Rachel's face tore through his life. After a while, without even realizing it's aloud, he begins to talk to her.
"We won't be staying here, but somewhere like this... I need to be in the wild again, for a while. I'm so tired of cities." He scratches his jaw, thinking. "You'd like Kai. I know you'd approve. She reminds me of you a little, in lots of good ways, but she's so different in lots of others. In good ways, too. Heh. I guess you two wouldn't want to meet though. That would be awkward... but if it wasn't, I bet you'd be friends." He runs out of words and just sits for a minute, looking at the sky, then murmurs, "I love you, Heather."
He knows Kai will be able to find him, if she wants him, but for now it's a peaceful place to just sit and be.
In a quiet grove just out of view of the strange town where they live, he digs a little spot and gets the candle settled firmly upright, and lights it. He kneels there listening to the chill spring wind in the trees, and feels more at peace than he has since the demon with Rachel's face tore through his life. After a while, without even realizing it's aloud, he begins to talk to her.
"We won't be staying here, but somewhere like this... I need to be in the wild again, for a while. I'm so tired of cities." He scratches his jaw, thinking. "You'd like Kai. I know you'd approve. She reminds me of you a little, in lots of good ways, but she's so different in lots of others. In good ways, too. Heh. I guess you two wouldn't want to meet though. That would be awkward... but if it wasn't, I bet you'd be friends." He runs out of words and just sits for a minute, looking at the sky, then murmurs, "I love you, Heather."
He knows Kai will be able to find him, if she wants him, but for now it's a peaceful place to just sit and be.
