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Epithalamium by Wild Iris (PG)
Fandom: EARTHSEA
Pairing: Ged/Tenar
Length: ~1200 words
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the_wild_iris
Author Website: Speak Again & ff.net
Why this must be read:
Tehanu is introduced in the fourth book of the Earthsea series, named for her, when she's adopted by Ged & Tenar. Badly burned as a young child, she's left severely disfigured and is very shy especially of men. By the end of Tehanu, she's revealed to be one of the dragon kind, when the ancient dragon Kalessin calls her his child. Fourteen years later, in The Other Wind, she takes the form of a golden dragon to fly away with the other dragons.
Set after the end of Tehanu, 'Epithalamium' gives us a brief interlude with Tehanu (here under her alternative name of Therru) and the village witch, Aunty Moss (also known as Hatha), one of the few people she trusts. The piece achieves the delicate balance between treating Tehanu on the one hand as a girl firmly rooted in the prosaic rural life on Gont, and on the other hand as the embodiment of the mysterious Other. Wild Iris is probably best known for her poetry & drabbles, and her prose always has a luminous, poetic quality.
Therru swings the bar across the hearth. "I was listening to the sea," she says. "It's come from Havnor tonight. Before the king was there. It is happy now."
"They're just waves, dearie."
"But water is always different," Therru says. "My father told me that. Every wave that rolls in to Gont Port once broke upon the rocks of Soléa when it was new."
"And would tell a fine story if it could, I don't doubt that." Moss wonders if she should close the shutters, but her joints are aching. "Just get down some of that raspberry tea. The red jar."
Epithalamium by Wild Iris
Pairing: Ged/Tenar
Length: ~1200 words
Author on LJ:
the_wild_irisAuthor Website: Speak Again & ff.net
Why this must be read:
Tehanu is introduced in the fourth book of the Earthsea series, named for her, when she's adopted by Ged & Tenar. Badly burned as a young child, she's left severely disfigured and is very shy especially of men. By the end of Tehanu, she's revealed to be one of the dragon kind, when the ancient dragon Kalessin calls her his child. Fourteen years later, in The Other Wind, she takes the form of a golden dragon to fly away with the other dragons.
Set after the end of Tehanu, 'Epithalamium' gives us a brief interlude with Tehanu (here under her alternative name of Therru) and the village witch, Aunty Moss (also known as Hatha), one of the few people she trusts. The piece achieves the delicate balance between treating Tehanu on the one hand as a girl firmly rooted in the prosaic rural life on Gont, and on the other hand as the embodiment of the mysterious Other. Wild Iris is probably best known for her poetry & drabbles, and her prose always has a luminous, poetic quality.
Therru swings the bar across the hearth. "I was listening to the sea," she says. "It's come from Havnor tonight. Before the king was there. It is happy now."
"They're just waves, dearie."
"But water is always different," Therru says. "My father told me that. Every wave that rolls in to Gont Port once broke upon the rocks of Soléa when it was new."
"And would tell a fine story if it could, I don't doubt that." Moss wonders if she should close the shutters, but her joints are aching. "Just get down some of that raspberry tea. The red jar."
Epithalamium by Wild Iris
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