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prompt #166: cynical -- Remains. (warning: character death)

music: Linkin Park - Valentine's Day

Title: Remains
Author: [info]red_day_dawning
Prompt: #166 - cynical
Word count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The following is based on characters and situations created and owned by J K Rowling, various publishers.
A/N:     remains:  plural noun – 1. things remaining. 2. historical or archaeological relics. 3. a person’s body after death.  From Oxford Online at http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/orexxmains?view=uk

 

Salt, with wormwood and rue, the bitterest herbs, a permanent taste in his mouth now. 

Who would have thought he would be the last survivor?  Who could have expected him to outlast the Marauders?  How could he have outlived Remus?  A familiar, longed-for, imagined response: I would have expected it, Severus.  You've shown yourself to be the smartest, the most resourceful.  The bravest of us all.

He knew better.  Not intelligence, resourcefulness or bravery.  Only ill-luck and a cursed sense for survival left him here, cynical at Lupin's gravestone.

Alone. 

The last survivor, the one who remained.

Alone.  The remains. 

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[info]firefly124

Ah, so sad. Well done.
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 12:07 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]red_day_dawning

Thank you!
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 12:25 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]sweetmelodykiss

Oh, so heartbreaking. Poor Severus. Excellent work!
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 12:31 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]red_day_dawning

Thank you!
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 12:55 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]westernredcedar

Just gorgeous, sweetie. *hugs* "longed-for, imagined"-- that's just it, isn't it? Painful and beautiful.

PS I got your amazing book recs (!), and I'll reply properly when my mom leaves from her visit...I'm sneaking rare internets time while she is here.
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]red_day_dawning

Thank you! Yes, "longed for" & "imagined" describes it. *sigh* Oh, well...

* I'll send more book recs as I keep reading - I'm reading 3 promising novels at the moment.
P.S. My lecturer last night described Judith Clarke, the author of A Whole & Perfect Day, (which I bagged in my email) as a "national treasure". Perhaps disregard my crit of that novel?
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2008 09:07 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]nimrod_9

Hauntingly, sad and beautiful!
Posted on Jul. 27th, 2008 02:41 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]red_day_dawning

Thanks!
Posted on Jul. 27th, 2008 09:33 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply