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Title: A Taste of Melancholy
Author: red_day_dawning Pairing: Remus/Severus
Word Count: 100
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Challenge: prompt #178 – “I like these cold, winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
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A Taste of Melancholy

“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”

Order business sent me to the tropics for months. Without you.

Summer was the time of rains; torrential downpours daily, falling in heavy sheets, not drops.

They called winter the “dry season”; each day was exactly like the next, bright blue cloudless sky, warm without being hot. Bliss at first, then I grew to loathe it.

I longed for grey winter days, cold searing through flesh, as harsh as your anger, as potent as your lust. I longed for pearly grey skies, luminescent, pellucid, purity in the fading light; a melancholic taste in the air. I longed for you, Severus.