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drunk Title: Enough
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Characters involved: Pellew, Bracegirdle, Hornblower
Character to give rum to: Pellew
Author and notes: linaerys, drabble some time during The Wrong War/Frogs and Lobsters, drabble written while drunk (yay sales meeting and free alcohol, please forgive probable grammar errors)
There are dreams and dreams. Pellew tosses and turns, and sleep comes hard. Bracegirdle says "We will find him again," but it is not enough.
Horblower dying on the guillotine, Hornblower killed by musket fire, Hornblower lifted into the air when the bridge explodes and dashed to death on the slimy rocks below. Pellew paces his cabin as the dreams pace his head. It is not enough.
Pellew’s muscles strain hard against the water; there have been a hundred strokes before this, and will be a hundred after, but he knows, it is not enough. It will never be enough.
November 18 2003, 22:54:31 UTC 8 years ago
November 18 2003, 23:02:18 UTC 8 years ago
November 19 2003, 13:00:41 UTC 8 years ago
Besides, I love the scene where Pellew goes in one of the boats and starts rowing. :-)
November 20 2003, 05:45:11 UTC 8 years ago
I love the scene where Pellew goes in one of the boats and starts rowing.
Me too.
November 23 2003, 18:42:04 UTC 8 years ago
"Pellew paces his cabin as the dreams pace his head": this is a lovely image, and it's beautifully supported by your use of repetition, which gives the reader a "pacing" effect, as Pellew's thoughts (like his steps) keep retracing themselves.
Thanks for writing!
~~o
November 24 2003, 05:43:38 UTC 8 years ago
But you gave me two new vocab words for it, and that is always a good thing. It is not very often I come across words I don't know.