"Down the Whispering Well," post 10

Title: Down the Whispering Well
This post rating: general
Warnings: angst
Word Count: 3900
Disclaimer: Ashmael, Vaysh, and the harish world all belong to Storm Constantine; I'm merely playing with great abandon in her sandbox.
Pairings: Vaysh/Ashmael (historic)

Novella summary: Being brought back from the dead doesn't mean happily ever after, especially if you're Vaysh. Life has its costs, and he pays dearly. An exploration of Vaysh's character in the years before and through Pellaz's transformation, and the burdens he endures, because he must.

Post summary: A very canon ending; what's done is done, and Vaysh confronts what he must: he is stronger than he realizes. A few quotes, again, from Enchantments, as to ignore them would seem stilted. Continued from post 9, here. Epilogue to follow shortly. My thanks to Storm Constantine for having captured my imagination with Wraeththu so much over the past few months, and having led me, thusly, to those of you reading this.

I'm now ready to write more Wraeththu PWP, or something set far afield from this. These two gapfillers have worn me out, though I still love Vaysh more than life itself. I don't say that this is at all healthy. ;)

( Down the Whispering Well, post 10, end )

Down the Whispering Well- poems and playlist question

For those of you who've been reading along (and the Epilogue is still to come), you've probably noticed that there was a poem or song lyric at the beginning of each post. That started out as happenstance; I wrote the poem that appears at the beginning of the first post and then decided to find appropriate headers along the way. Would you all be interested in a selection that has the entirety of the poems, in order, as well as the songs from which I posted the lyrics? There's a soundtrack to come for this novella as well: by Monday I should have the Epilogue completed and I'll find more beautiful men art for the 'soundtrack' liner for the soundtrack and have it ready to upload as well. But if there was interest in the totality of the poems I quoted from, or if you all were at all curious about them, let me know.

Also, now that that is done, I think it's time for another shorter Wraeththu story. Suggestions? Scenarios/pairings/polyamorous situations you'd like to see me write? Let me know!