A Ring Is Round (It Has No End)

[evenstar]

Title: A Ring Is Round (It Has No End)
Challenge/Prompt: Symbol
Original Fiction (Beautiful Wasteland)
Characters/Pairings: Elisa/Joshua/Star
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: it's all mine!
Summary: Star and the meaning of another kind of ring.
Author's Notes: I forgot how tricky it is to make a coherent piece out of 100 words. And, ah, I went for a fanfic piece originally but then chickened out when it came to posting it. Refuge in original works! Or something...


The emerald was for Elisa, the red jasper for Joshua, and the sapphire for me. E-J-S. Elisa Joshua Star. It sat snugly on my finger like it had always belonged there.

When I was little, I had wanted fluffy white wedding dresses and six-layer cakes, something old new borrowed blue, bridal waltzes, a slow walk down an aisle, my father giving me away, and a sparkling diamond on a ring of gold. In the end, I got none of it.

And yet, staring down at the bejewelled band of silver, I couldn't imagine wanting anything else in all the world.

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[megaptera]

Title: Misinterpretation
Challenge/Prompt: symbol
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Characters: Necromancer, Amazon, desert mercenary guy
Rating: 13+ for a dead guy and black magic.
Warnings: none.
Disclaimer: Setting and 'verse belong to Blizzard, and I am an old-school sadfan.
Summary: People always assume the worst when you mess around with corpses.
Author's Notes: Yet another attempt to get my omg!epic fanfic going by snapping at random drabble challenges as they flutter past.

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The necromancer froze, the blade at his throat flashing a distorted reflection.

“What's it do?” rasped a weary voice, close behind his ear.

The glyph scratched into the cracked flesh of the dead man's hand was powerless, unfinished. “It'll protect him -- ”

“So you can use him later?”

Yesterday, that question had sent him into a rage; now, he felt only bitter resignation. “I wouldn't...”

“He wouldn't.” The creak of a bowstring echoed off the cliffs. “Stand down.”

The blade withdrew, and made a dull sound as it was dropped to the sand behind him.