What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Do you miss the fairy courts?” I asked Ariel, swinging my leg over the edge of a rainworn boulder.
He - it was he that day - considered the question carefully, chin resting thoughtfully on his knuckles.
“I miss the option of their distance,” he said at last. “Which is to say, I miss being able to visit them, but only because I was able to leave again.”
“That sounds a very complicated relationship.”
“Most are,” said Ariel, “when not confined to islands.

—“Coral Bones” by Foz Meadows, from Monstrous Little Voices
(via overtheeffingrainbow)

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