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fics20in20 Round 3 Entry: "Wood" (PG-ish)
Jul. 12th, 2011 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtxref_ficAuthor's Note: Written for one of the five Author's Choice prompts; the last time I completed this challenge, I used the Western version of the Five Elements, but this time, since Mervyn Peake was born and grew up in China, I thought I'd go with the Chinese Five Elements. And since one of them is "wood", it was perfect for the Carvers.
Word Count: 118
The Carvers worked so closely with wood that the dust from their chisels seemed to have melted into their bodies and souls. The adults aged young, quickly turning gnarled and grey like the boles of the tree trunks in the Twisted Woods, where they harvested the matrices from which they drew their creations. Their souls had the potentiality to flare up and burn brightly with white hot creation, but ages of being trained into a specific shape had left them unable to stand with the support of the dictates from the Castle. Their lives had grown rigid, yielding only when hammer and chisel were applied, tools that suddenly came into use by unprecedented hands, both pairs lacking reason...
Word Count: 118
The Carvers worked so closely with wood that the dust from their chisels seemed to have melted into their bodies and souls. The adults aged young, quickly turning gnarled and grey like the boles of the tree trunks in the Twisted Woods, where they harvested the matrices from which they drew their creations. Their souls had the potentiality to flare up and burn brightly with white hot creation, but ages of being trained into a specific shape had left them unable to stand with the support of the dictates from the Castle. Their lives had grown rigid, yielding only when hammer and chisel were applied, tools that suddenly came into use by unprecedented hands, both pairs lacking reason...
