ext_12350 ([identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fickle 2006-08-08 01:56 pm (UTC)

I know very little of Menolly's canon, but here's my best shot.

She's young. 16. Too young.

River, at least, was nineteen. So was is Sarah (Stephen has to remind himself that Sarah is not just dead just because she is not with him, death is not the only thing that can part lovers).

Menolly's only 16. Three years making all the difference between her, River and Sarah.

Three years and hair as red as the flames of a fireplace in a castle that Stephen never visits. Three years and a love for reptiles that Stephen sees as a mirror of his own love for animals.

Three years -- 156 weeks -- 1095 days -- 26, 280 hours -- 1, 576, 800 minutes -- 93, 608, 000 seconds.

70 heartbeats per second. Just over one beat per minute.

122, 976, 000 heartbeats.

One hundred twenty two million, nine hundred and seventy six thousand heartbeats separate them.

Stephen sits in the dark of the Potions lab and listens to his own heart beating.

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