Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: Peaches and Thorns

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Peaches and Thorns

Shoukun and Seien talk about freedom, and she gathers a promise from him. Drama, I-3

She sighed. "My little Seiran." Very quietly she added, "If the palace will be such a cage to you, I will be sad to see you walk back in and pick up your chains again."

Comments

[branchandroot]

Oh, excellent! I was hoping that wouldn't be too over the top. The setting seems baroque enough to support it, but I know every now and then my imagery runs away with me. ^_^ Given who Shoukun is, the cages/chains thing almost had to come in, but Seiran is so... /feral/ when he comes out of Sa; I wanted something to echo that.

And, hey, squee and love is a perfectly wonderful thing.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

Seiran as feral is also another excellent image. Actually you're having a lot of success in comparing Shi family members to animals so far; last story you described Ryuuki as "alert as a wild animal," and this time around it's hawks and tameness. I like it very much. :-D

[branchandroot]

Ah, thank you! The Shi boys really make me think of wild animals a lot, especially with their sensitivity to danger, poison, etc. And Seiran... he used to be tame, and went wild during That Year, and now he's slowly coming back; but I have to wonder if he'll ever be truly domesticated again.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

I'm just as happy if he never does, personally, I like the wild animal imagery.