On the Library Roof
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:47 am
Tari sits on the roof of the library. She has just returned from a short visit somewhere. Tari sings a dull, sad song when she hears wings flapping. Her hawk lands on her shoulder and drops a message. The hawk flies away. Tari reads the message. It is from Athian, her 'adopted brother'. Tari finishes the letter and sighs, she was going to tell Athian something, but now it is useless, for he does not want to be her 'brother' anymore.
None of them know the half of it. None of them know the whole story of what happened to her so long ago. Tari does not know how to tell anyone what happened. No one seems to be a friend now. Not even her cousin seems to care, if he ever did. Tari holds a long rope in her hands, she brings it with her everywhere just in case it is needed. Tari takes a large metal nail and a dwarven smithed hammer and hammers the nail into the roof near the edge. She ties the rope into a lasso on one end and the other end she ties around the nail.
Should she go like this? What would people say as they pass by the library and see her dangling body? Perhaps she should cut her wrists and bleed to death, some people might think it was a murder and not an act of suicide.
Tari has no one else left in the world. No one will care if she is gone now. She might as well go.
...But she can't. What if it does not work? What if someone comes and sees Tari while she is doing it? Tari sits there and thinks to herself. She does not have enough courage to do it yet, but she still sits there, sits there and sings a sad sad song.
None of them know the half of it. None of them know the whole story of what happened to her so long ago. Tari does not know how to tell anyone what happened. No one seems to be a friend now. Not even her cousin seems to care, if he ever did. Tari holds a long rope in her hands, she brings it with her everywhere just in case it is needed. Tari takes a large metal nail and a dwarven smithed hammer and hammers the nail into the roof near the edge. She ties the rope into a lasso on one end and the other end she ties around the nail.
Should she go like this? What would people say as they pass by the library and see her dangling body? Perhaps she should cut her wrists and bleed to death, some people might think it was a murder and not an act of suicide.
Tari has no one else left in the world. No one will care if she is gone now. She might as well go.
...But she can't. What if it does not work? What if someone comes and sees Tari while she is doing it? Tari sits there and thinks to herself. She does not have enough courage to do it yet, but she still sits there, sits there and sings a sad sad song.