Truly beautiful, Catherine. You have a fine sense of atmosphere and poetic description. Seems to be the day for reading poignant fic here. laugh This was perfectly pitched and didn't once descend into being maudlin.

Reading others comments, I swither about the final paragraphs. I think they work and they do make the piece less dark. But OTOH dark is sometimes good. <G> I think it would work very well either way, but I think I like it just the way it is, on balance.

If you want to send this to the Archive , Catherine, it'd be very welcome!

LabRat smile


Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

The Musketeers