the light exchanged challenge: endure

[littledust]

Title: endure
Author: littledust / littledust
Word Count: 100
Character: Nie Huaisang
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Nie Huaisang paints a landscape and mourns.

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Nie Huaisang dips his brush in ink and sweeps it across the page, tracing the outline of mountains. More brushstrokes add texture and shadow to the rocky outcroppings. Humming, Nie Huaisang dips the brush again. He softens the harsh face of the mountains: here with a tree, its leaves turned toward the sun; there with a patch of moss, lush and inviting. Nature balances itself even in the starkest environments.

Nie Huaisang knows the mountains of Qinghe Nie as well as he knows his own brother's face. But Nie Mingjue is gone, and the mountains are left to endure alone.

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Comments

[hhimring]

I like what you are doing with the mountain image here.