[Fic] "Down in the Deep (The Index of Refraction)" -- Merlin

[edenfalling]

Remix reveal day! I wrote three stories this year: Sacrifices (Backwards and in High Heels) for aviss, Problems and Solutions (All Things in Time) for cofax, and Down in the Deep (The Index of Refraction) for significantowl.

I am going to talk about each in a separate post.

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Down in the Deep (The Index of Refraction): 450 words, April 2012. Now her breath is water. And they are still not the same. Freya/Merlin.

Remixed from Down in the Deep, a fic by significantowl.

Confession: I have only ever seen four episodes of Merlin, and they were the first four of series one. So I have never actually seen Freya. But! significantowl's fic is so lovely, and I wanted to say thank you for her beta job on my assigned remix, so I dashed this off in a hurry.

It's about miscommunication, I think, between two people who genuinely care about and for each other but who come from different backgrounds and don't see the world the same way even when they use the same words. It's also an excuse to play with language and elemental symbolism and stuff -- sometimes, I just want to write something pretty. Hopefully I succeeded!

(The remix subtitle is something I am very happy about in this case, because I spent about half an hour trying to think of some water-related quote before I finally hit on the idea that miscommunication is similar to the way objects appear to disjoint and bend at the interface between water and air. Hence refraction. *grin*)

Comments

[edenfalling]

Yay! \o/ My writing tends toward the very plain and workmanlike, if not stultifyingly dry, so an excuse to try for beauty is always welcome. :-)