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trek100. I'm feeling dark and stormy tonight, and it's only partly the weather.
Title: Desert Oasis
Author: Chanter
Series: TOS, post Undiscovered country
Rating: PG, dark
Characters/pairings: Valeris
Summary: Drabble. After Khittomer, Valeris survives not with a bang, but a whimper.
It never rains in the Vulcan desert.
It never storms on a landscape that breathes, lives, thrives similar. Sand will cover a nation, cover a stairwell, cover a world under arid sunlight. And sunlight will cover her.
So she is emerald and bronze and raven black. She is perfect under that sky, under her clothes, under robes and jewels and masks, resigned to desert and starfire and the silence in place of her name.
She’s used to shattered, shifted, silent and unprepared when the heavens unexpectedly splinter.
It rarely storms in the Vulcan desert.
And when it does, she cries.
trek100. I'm feeling dark and stormy tonight, and it's only partly the weather. Title: Desert Oasis
Author: Chanter
Series: TOS, post Undiscovered country
Rating: PG, dark
Characters/pairings: Valeris
Summary: Drabble. After Khittomer, Valeris survives not with a bang, but a whimper.
It never rains in the Vulcan desert.
It never storms on a landscape that breathes, lives, thrives similar. Sand will cover a nation, cover a stairwell, cover a world under arid sunlight. And sunlight will cover her.
So she is emerald and bronze and raven black. She is perfect under that sky, under her clothes, under robes and jewels and masks, resigned to desert and starfire and the silence in place of her name.
She’s used to shattered, shifted, silent and unprepared when the heavens unexpectedly splinter.
It rarely storms in the Vulcan desert.
And when it does, she cries.
