And I would give all this and heaven too

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Characters: Valdis and specific starters with some open
Date: April
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: in headers


And the heart is hard to translate
It has a language of its own
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
And prayers and proclamations
In the grand deeds of great men and the smallest of gestures
And short shallow gasps

But with all my education I can't seem to command it
And the words are all escaping, and coming back all damaged
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how
I can't seem to understand it

And I would give all this and heaven too
I would give it all if only for a moment
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
'Cause I've been scrawling it forever but it never makes sense to me at all

Comments

[annihilist]

The root of his confusion was that he could give her anything at all in doing this - anything permanent and good. Devin's mind was so caught up in anticipating what could go wrong all the time that he had not thought of what could go right. It was-- humbling, or near enough.

His distaste for manacles was shared, which didn't surprise him. Neither of them liked being caged in any way, no matter how necessary it might be.

"Or there need to be more than one of them, for sizing." Otherwise Devin wasn't sure how to make something that could fit both her shapes, though a jeweler or a smith might have a better idea of how to accomplish that.

"I'd thought about a bracelet; it'd be doable but the catch is that you couldn't wear it all the time. I wouldn't advise it, anyway," he amended carefully, tapping fingertips lightly against the table in thought. "Even when it isn't activated, I think it would be unwise to leave available for study."

He did not want to give the Void any more chances to break through it than absolutely necessary.

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This was one place where she and Devin differed. His pessimism, his past, made him unable to see how he added to the light in the world, while Valdis had never cared, her own worldview limited to self-defense and pride.

"I wouldn't want to wear it all the time." The usefulness of this magic didn't erase the odd power it held over her. As a former angel, the language should have been one she understood, but Enochian made no sense to her. Perhaps that was for the best.

"But a bracelet that goes around my upper arm would fit around my wrist as a hound. With a hinge, there wouldn't be a need to slip it over the paw."

There were likely some jewelers who could help, though the proper materials might be hard to come by.

"I wish we had access to the same metal used in my sword. It's unbreakable."

Though that might also mean it couldn't be forged with the methods existing in Aifaran.