Title: Water, Fire, and Hope
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Icka for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Lights glimmer on the water

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Lights glimmer on the water, tiny barques of candle-lit paper and wood, sparks of sunset floating under a slowly darkening sky, carrying hopes, prayers, dreams, memories. Each set by hands - old, young, trembling, steady, dark, pale, gold, brown, whole, hindered, alone or together - to float on the endless, restless tide, borne up by the ocean, witnessed by wind and moon and stars. They say: Flames in the dark, we are, bright and brief and beautiful; see how we glow and shine, each small light part of a greater whole, as we venture out into the living mysteries of the deeps.

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