Six Sentence Sunday

[paulamcg]

Snagged from delphi. Post six sentences from whatever you're working on, if you're game!


Using my wand would be foolhardy, but I’ve learnt to do some things without it.

Conjuring a cold flame on my palm is easy. I’ve practised it so many times when I’ve wanted to read all through sleepless nights, on deserted beaches or in pitch-dark olive groves, weaving words together with the rhythms of waves or incessant crickets into blankets to cover my mind if not my body. The visible light also dims my mind, numbs some threatening emotions.

Just as, whether wand magic or wandless, warming charms draw their power from my body heat. But it’s still an interesting challenge to sacrifice a bit of warmth and to condense such heat above my thumbnail that the stub lights when touching it.


(Come Up With Me, a fic I wrote in 2005 and started revising today, after getting my latest fic out for beta.)

Comments

[chez_jae]

Lovely!

[paulamcg]

Thank you! That’s Remus in Greece while Sirius is in Azkaban. The old, revised fic is now on AO3.

[delphi]

Oh, nice! I've been pleased as punch to see Six Sentence Sunday spreading.

[paulamcg]

Thank you for reading and commenting! I’ve been eager to do Six Sentence Sunday before, but I must have been working on fest fic or nothing. (This fic’s now on AO3.)

[delphi]

Thanks for the link! I'm looking forward to checking it out this evening.

[paulamcg]

Thank you! That old fic is the one among my work that is the furthest away from canon settings, plots and characters, as there’s hardly a reference to anything in HP, not even Remus’s own name. Not the fic I’d expect people to check out first, but I’m thrilled you want to have a look.

[pauraque]

Very pretty and intriguing!

[paulamcg]

Thank you! The pretty voice is my artist Remus’s in 1986. The glimpses of wandless magic are what he’s first learnt from a goblin. And I’ve taken this opportunity to state my take on warming charms – based on my will to prevent magic from satisfying basic needs too easily. (The fic’s now on AO3.)