theseatheseatheopensea: Illustration of the Sir Patrick Spens ballad, from A Book of Old English Ballads, by George Wharton Edwards. (Sir Patrick Spens.)
theseatheseatheopensea ([personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic 2023-08-28 08:28 pm (UTC)

He smiled up at the cold stars. They’d be waiting a long time. It had been nearly twenty years since he’d found the way to be at one with the winter storms; his affinity with the icestone. That’s what they called it, when they whispered about him, when they didn’t – safely far south – dismiss him as a shadow grown over-solid in the telling.

I really like this, it's just like a legend or a folk tale!

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