Drabble: Into the Valley (Angel, G)

[seraphcelene]

Title: Into the Valley
Fandom: Angel the Series
A/N: Thanks to tkp for the prompt and for helping me to limber up.
Summary: post-Sleep Tight Holtz in the lion's den. 100 words.



And his eyebrows were singed and the curls on his head and the edges of the blanket wrapped around the baby.

The light cast shadows over everything and made his eyes cross. He forgot the words in his book. Forced garbled curses from his lips and froth and spit and he choked, nearly throttled the babe for wailing his wretched weakness at the world's end.

Bereft and abandoned, he'd forgotten his own name.

When he was twenty-three days lost (marked by wounds in tree bark), benediction welled from some forgotten corner.

"The Lord is my shepherd," he said. Then, "Angelus."

Comments

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! I loved the way you used the prompt; I never would've thought to use it like that!

Love the alliteration in this: wailing his wretched weakness at the world's--you managed to do it without it sounding pretentious. V. beautiful!

Liked the way you used the word "and"--felt very biblical.

[seraphcelene]

Thank you! Coming up with prompts is hard, too.

I was iffy on the alliteration part. Wasn't sure it really worked over if it would be too overblown.

This is actually a good excercise!! Thanks for suggesting it.

[lynnenne]

Nicely done, especially the ending.

[seraphcelene]

Thank you, my dear!