"The Fall" / #169: Melancholy

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 Title: "The Fall" 
Challenge/Prompt: #169 / Melancholy
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Characters/Pairings: N/A
Rating: PG-13 / K+
Warnings: Trauma. 
Disclaimer:  Original work, my own stuffs, etc.
Summary:   You betrayed him
Author's Notes:  bad romance, eschatology edition

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"What was it like?" the finch asks, perched between hollow ribs. "Tell me please tell me."
 

"Like a sun, asunder," she says, wings wrapped in dust, arm stretched skywards. Dark sky, no stars. Her eyes dim. "That terrible, engulfing light. All those ashes."

 "You betrayed him," the finch chirps, skipping bones. "Broke your covenant."

"We were his children, first," the angel says. "He betrayed us too."

Oh, little bird, she doesn't say, if only you remembered the reach of your wings, the light you promised. Oh, little bird, you were always the brightest of us.
 

Remember, little bird, please remember.

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Comments

[sideways]

Somehow you do the tales of celestial warfare in different shades every time but wow, this one seriously tugged at the heart-strings. Such a silent sorrow to contrast against the bird's blithe ignorance.

(Also yes finches, finches are the best, I will pet them forever even when they are not possibly Satan.)

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It's a bit twisted, but I always tend to sympathise with canon-defined losers. 'Cuz canon's always written by the winners anyhow. That said, this was as cruel a punishment I could think of (leaving aside lakes of fire and infernal pits, etc.)

I <3 finches also. There were other contenders - but magpies aren't as adorable, cuckoos are creepy and parasitic, and ravens are ominous.

...you just gave me an idea. i should totally subtitle this: Part 1 in the Satan Finch Chronicles.