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white_lotus2013-02-14 06:14 pm
whitelotusmods) wrote in white_lotus2013-02-14 06:14 pm
LNYE Fic: Knowledge Becomes Spirals, for jack_of_none
Title: Knowledge Becomes Spirals
By:attackfish
For: jack_of_none
Rating: G
Spoilers: For Avatar: the Last Airbender, episode 2.10 - The Library
Characters/Pairings: Zei
Size: 250 words
Content Notes: None
Other Notes: None
Summary: There is no place for a human in the library of Wan Shi Tong
Knowledge Becomes Spirals
She had been a woman when the Sun Warriors hadn't even dreamed of sailing to the islands that would become the Fire Nation. Her fur was rusty brown and sleek, and when she smiled at him, mouth full of teeth, he smiled back, tongue lolling out of his mouth. Zei was young, and still excitable. He was going to take it all in, learn all of it, read every scroll until they became part of him. She shook her head and told him not to bother trying. New knowledge was made faster than they could ever hope to keep up with, and it always, always changed.
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The first time he brought He Who Knows Ten Thousand Things back a scroll from the world above, it had been written by the Water Tribe boy, and Zei remembered the owl spirit telling the boy he wasn't very bright. Zei wondered how he would react, but Wan Shi Tong didn't seem to recall. Later there would be more scrolls with the boy's name in them, and the names of the other children, and the great things they had done, and the great things they had found, and made, and built.
Maybe if he had stayed above ground, if he had left with the children, he would be making knowledge himself. Maybe the other fox spirits would be learning about him.
But he didn't dwell on it for very long before he headed back to the scrolls. There was so much still to learn.
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attackfishFor: jack_of_none
Rating: G
Spoilers: For Avatar: the Last Airbender, episode 2.10 - The Library
Characters/Pairings: Zei
Size: 250 words
Content Notes: None
Other Notes: None
Summary: There is no place for a human in the library of Wan Shi Tong
Knowledge Becomes Spirals
She had been a woman when the Sun Warriors hadn't even dreamed of sailing to the islands that would become the Fire Nation. Her fur was rusty brown and sleek, and when she smiled at him, mouth full of teeth, he smiled back, tongue lolling out of his mouth. Zei was young, and still excitable. He was going to take it all in, learn all of it, read every scroll until they became part of him. She shook her head and told him not to bother trying. New knowledge was made faster than they could ever hope to keep up with, and it always, always changed.
~*~
The first time he brought He Who Knows Ten Thousand Things back a scroll from the world above, it had been written by the Water Tribe boy, and Zei remembered the owl spirit telling the boy he wasn't very bright. Zei wondered how he would react, but Wan Shi Tong didn't seem to recall. Later there would be more scrolls with the boy's name in them, and the names of the other children, and the great things they had done, and the great things they had found, and made, and built.
Maybe if he had stayed above ground, if he had left with the children, he would be making knowledge himself. Maybe the other fox spirits would be learning about him.
But he didn't dwell on it for very long before he headed back to the scrolls. There was so much still to learn.
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I really love this! The imagery is beautiful, and I love Zei's hesitation over whether or not he should have left the library, and ajdfhakfs this is so great, thank you!
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