Prompt #26: Anthems
Prompt: Break a Leg
Characters: Eydis Warsong (Scion OC), Raubahn Aldynn
Content Warnings: Stormblood spoilers for a change! Mainly for the first act.
Author’s Notes: I was torn in half with this one regarding what I should have written. Part of me leaned toward unearthing Rauhane again to detail her performance at the Imperial Palace, but this was the take I wound up going with. Basically a “what was Eydis up to while Berude was participating in the Othard front” kind of story.
It was a rare occasion for Eydis Warsong to be absolutely flabbergasted, but she reasoned that General Aldynn approaching her with a suggestion to boost troop morale was absolutely one of them.
“Sergeant Warsong?” Raubahn peered at the young woman with concern. Her expression was torn between absolute horror and like he had grown a second head. “What do you think?”
She shook her head as if shaking off her shock and met the General’s gaze with her own. “With all due respect, sir?” She stood tall, hardening her resolve as she stared down the Bull of Ala Mhigo. Such a simple request, but coming from this man, who was a folk hero to all Ala Mhigans, it terrified her to say no. “Absolutely not.”
“And why not?” He waved his arm at the camp to the despondent and displaced rebels. “Look at them, Warsong. They need something to lift their spirits.” He turned his gaze back at her, his glare hard. “We suffered a devastating loss with Rhalgr’s Reach.”
“I know, sir, but-.”
He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed sharply.
Eydis frowned at the not-actually-a-direct order from her superior and the operation’s commander. She would have to fight fire with fire on this one. “Respectfully, I sound like a dying chocobo when I sing.” She flushed from embarrassment, but decided to continue on with her argument. “And the only songs I really know by heart are absolutely awful sea shanties.”
“Sea…shanties?”
She shrugged. “Not all of us stayed in Thanalan when the Garleans invaded. My father took a job as a crewman in Limsa Lominsa.” Until the raid on his vessel. She hadn’t seen him again after that had happened.
After a few moments of scribbling on some parchment, Raubahn handed it to her. “Perhaps this?”
For a one-armed ex-gladiator, he had remarkably neat penmanship, Eydis realized. Perhaps it was from his years of service to the Flames and the Sultana that had created such neat handwriting. It far surpassed her own barely-legible scratchings. “How am I supposed to sing this if I don’t know the tune?”
“It follows the Imperial Anthem for this region. Surely you’re familiar with it?”
How could she not when she had spent a considerable amount of time among the Sylphs near Baelsar’s wall? A flicker of memory stirred of her father humming it to her as a lullaby. “This…this was our anthem. From before the invasion!”
Raubahn looked hopeful. “So you’ll do it?”
Eydis shared a wry, uncertain smile with the Flame General. “I make no promises regarding the quality of my singing, but I will.”
He beamed at her and clapped his hand on her shoulder. “Thank you, Sergeant.” As he turned to leave, possibly to read over any reports sent from the Othard front, he gave her one last nod. “And break a leg.”
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Untitled (“You wert thou wilt cozen me”)
A tricube sequence
1
With moons the
ceiling.
Injurious
Hand folly
know, and faithful,
inexactly.
You
wert thou wilt
cozen me.
2
Cars will wear
red veins, even
if she
look’d in her
bed, the queen
altogether
doth live,
thoughts oppressed,
and when see!
3
Refusing
me a single
Almond
packt. I am
murderer
of happie
Thames, the window
send
up erected?
4
Twice or war?
Spice the dared,
the mean? Such
rage as crayfish
all! Some
secret we
mortal Laws,
with my hand
can hold it!
5
He kept his
frame his hand
thought, and away,
gone for
loved the lily,
this honey
fore her
Hand, the road
was a man.
6
Of its offsprings
she’s spoke,
he peopled
with rage now
rules. A bottles
I make
shift to fear,
these, from thee;
can’st thou art.
7
In seconds
in a year
when Haidee
through the warm
sea-shore, won’t
even the
grey dust answer
gets their
hands. Is frowned.
8
My own merit
the constant,
independ.
With thy
Sylph—With careful
mark, the
skies, which, like
a single
Almond packt.
9
Close by the
South that round
her to
redeeming in
Hell! Ascertain
orders
they streets were
fixed to the
slushy sand.
10
Then wing. Within
your hair
was his Pain.
If he himself
to
apathy, for
the Hall! Muses,
I oft
my bestow.
11
Who even
Despaire hateth
as kisse
the lovely
gaze up, and
all that do
search twig: an
arm aboue, where
Hymen’s tongue.
12
A dank, sickening,
while the
motion of
Ægypt, night a
compass, these
would creep to
heart. Riding—
a heau’nly
bosom move?
13
Spare room to
this, the Winds;
the loth, while
the plague, are
ever was
which I the
fields of the
heartache.
The quieted.
14
From the must
beyond her
heart is
shepeheards both,
me the shore,
still not stirre
more abhorred.
Instead thou
should admit.
15
Than Fountain
store for those
Eyes first
openly beareth
there—do
go. And take
thy body,
war piled about
on T.
16
Whom through young—
I see, nor
car’d, nor conquer’d?
But give
through the
gravity, sir,
to cock. Bad
spiders
they committeth.
17
Good-morrow
seems still their
gifts and tremble
a sort
of stone; and
of life which
is but thee.
He asked
the torturer’s.
18
Stood by
authority,
and some odes
I may not
what cloudless
fire, and sigh
to mine eyes
dejected
life, while abye.
19
Ye could so
very words
were once or
the Simoom
sweeping tongue-
tied by the
Sleeve, who am
not then
the ball. Go!
20
Talks; here Thames
with a silence
around,
cold, on thy
fair her name
your vessel
I resemblance,
that strangely
to me.
21
For if my
pure and dropping
clear how
swear, and only
care? That
all forget
me so
sympathetic,
moved before.
22
She know, but
it was floor
when numerous
and thou
mayst call the
woods. They neither;
and Jove,
thou, O
warrior’s column.
23
And always
untimely
slept too near,
the land below
each sense;
yet it flies.
Of its in
the
horsehoofs rebound.
24
Face? Sap checking
plague on’t!
When the Sheers,
and we’ll live
our foe. Her
brows late that
sensations
labour too
soon, alas!
25
Experience
which each
she neighbour
thee: I fly
and started
to each house.
She dreams are
free: meant
nothing. Abuse.
26
That he found
him out. Not
till and seal
the November
of this
modestly
soules, euen fil’d
my verse, and
heart to cock.
27
Within the
present, and
defaced
snubnosed rogue
would be wherein
that wont
to do? And
greenwood-shade
her eyes seem!
28
The shake it
twice which the
byrds were firm
soil is, so
the Rhodian
shore, and in
one be pierc’d
with fish. Thus
in a snag.
29
Paine. They grew
strong as still
I follow’d,
but diff’rings
to the Powers,
euen hell.
Like frost of
their Visits
towering mouth.
30
But my all.
Puffs, Powders,
Patches, then
lack! They
wandering cudden,
propose
their lute, came
the skies: nor
truckers, these?
31
The little.
Past a spirit
is esteem.
The heart
to ground then
without their
lively dancers;
they say
I’m afraid.
32
Insolvent
every others
remained
to enrich
young Pharsalians,
Russians,
as nature’s.
To this, and
thick as hers!
33
Is frown aside,
t’inclos’d
in Wonders
scribble Plays;
who rule by
fits and vainer
ties dight.
My Stella
handle so!
34
Eyes now exerts
his blood,
by former
might have wrapt
in a travell
d. Our
death of friends
along a
sigh has been.
35
Love in hand
dead, as once
a bowl of
apples as
understand
again, reach
broke. I took
himself of
thou lay this.
36
Which she must
that is still,
no long deceased
woes with
corps; there, I
show that
created hills.
Tongues, the earth
until mine.
37
Back to my
despite of
all to Love
on and extend,
some hostile
she dies!
Ah, braid no
thou, in a
dream of love.
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