Original - Fevered

[sunlit_stone]

Title: Fevered
Original
Rating: T (but I'm being cautious)
Notes: I'm completely new to Dreamwidth—I apologize in advance if I get this wrong!

The ideas burned in him like fever: new furies, new countries, new monsters to kill in all the old ways. We would burn this place down and build a new one from the ashes—ashes (he told me) could be used to make cement. Could be used to clean glass til it shone. It burned in him, burned in all of us—

Burned like fever. And broke like fever too, passing from one moment to the next from haze to dizzy clarity. When you wake to sweat and memory, knowing now what it feels like to be able to be warm.

Comments

[sideways]

Oh, I like this! Strangely relatable - the consumptive power of inspiration that suddenly washes away in mere days ;)

[sunlit_stone]

Thank you! Haha--I'm not sure that's what I was going for, but like I said, I'm not actually sure what I was going for at all, and that certainly works as an interpretation :)