The Five Orange Pips: Sea

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Sea
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Had a tough time this week! Just couldn't find an angle I liked. Sorry for the delay!

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The sea is a being above the vagaries of human pettiness. When the sea hungers, it devours. The sea takes what it desires without prejudice and without mercy, guilt, or pride.

When the Lone Star sank and her men drowned in that driving September gale, it was not murder. It was not vengeance. It was only, as ever, the sea.

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Thanks much!

[methylviolet10b]

Oooh! I really like this, and how you captured the impartial, implacable nature of the sea in so few words. :-)

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm glad it worked because that one did not come easily... :)

[hardboiledbaby]

Oh, love your description of a vast, pitiless force. Nicely done!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about that even the KKK could be negotiated with to a degree. You could move away as they asked, you could placate them. Nothing to be done like that with the ocean. I'm so happy you liked it!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The sea did seem to play a large part in this week's story, starting from the book Watson was reading. Dominating yet impersonal.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There are a lot of water references. In fact, everyone in the story who dies drowns except Openshaw's father.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Yes. That faceless entity that Watson may have wanted to call natural justice, but wasn't. Great stuff.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

There are no winners here, no spoils. Just loss alone, for everyone.

I'm delighted to hear this 60 worked for you, because I had rather a time with it.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Very Melvillean!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a high compliment indeed! Thank you much!

[shouldboverthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, beautiful and poetic. Too true.