[Fic] "Caveat Emptor" -- Harry Potter

[edenfalling]

Just a theory. 100 words.

[ETA: The AO3 crosspost is now up.]

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Caveat Emptor
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The price of eternal life is the seeker's soul. Many who walk the dark paths hesitate to take that final step, to break all ties to the natural ebb and flow of the world. But some, a few, enough, make the bargain.

And they do live on. Forever. Empty. Shrouded in the darkness that they once embraced, their bodies an outward manifestation of inward horror. They drain happiness, desperately seeking the emotions they can no longer feel. They steal souls, fruitlessly throwing grains of sand into the void where their own should be.

Their kiss is the taste of oblivion.

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Inspired by the 9/19/04 15minuteficlets word #73: harvest

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Sunday school went well this morning. Despite my insomnia last night, I didn't fall asleep in class, and I managed to tell the story of Jonah and the Whale so it sounded interesting to 6-year-old kids. Go me!

I also finished a book on the history of Buddhism in China. Interesting stuff.

Naps are god. I worship naps. Especially after getting about 3.5 hours of sleep last night.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

My god, how coudl that word ahve madeyo ut hoguth of THEM! so unbelievably clever.
and it stopped. it stopped!!! *woe*

Yo uare suc han amazing author for mwhat i've read by now. I shal lhave to thank lasultrix for pointing me here. *beams8

[edenfalling]

Harvesting souls, I think. And the dementors wear hooded robes, like the classic anthropomorphic figure of Death, the Reaper. It's all down to analogies, really. :-)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

heeee i hardl yeven noticed! Bad me.

I' mglady ou're not fillign yoru writing with metaphores. I knew someoen who woudl match eveyrsymbo lwith another and weave a wonderfu ltapestry of prose 9ther e I go1), but if she wanted to bring sometign a cross isure as hel lcouldn't find it. I was to obusy deconstructing the sentences adn grammar and what-it-said to find otu what the hell she watned t osay. it reall yissometign horrid when you need to get adictionary and reread five times 9and hat last oen happened with an article on hp. it took me an hour to read it because that man had such tripple-layered constructions i needed totranslate to dutch for the ifrst time in my life to GET it.)
Heh...but I loved this. adn i WILL read the rest of yours.

[edenfalling]

Well, I like a metaphor as much as the next person... but if nobody can understand it, I don't think it's a very effective metaphor.

Sometimes I wish I had another language to translate some English writing into. Because I'm fairly sure some of it isn't really English, no matter what the writers say! :-)

[redwolfoz.livejournal.com]

A rather dark take on harvest. If I wasn't playing with my current !verse, I think I may of headed off into similar territory.

[edenfalling]

It's not my first stab at the word -- that one kicked off the Ekanu story I'm in the middle of -- but I kind of like it.

Besides, it would vastly amuse me if Voldemort sold his soul, ended up as a Dementor, and Harry just laughed and sent him off with a casual Patronus.