The Swing (Amelia Pond X The Shadow)
Jan 18, 2014 17:34:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 17:34:47 GMT -5
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Amelia found herself swinging on the dilapidated swing once more reciting the lines of a poem. Her voice whispers softly full of quiet passion and longing. What had she done to deserve this shunning? Slowly her short legs pump her higher into the air, the wood creaks and groans of old age, the wind whistles softly in her hair of travels through the stars. She continues onto the next stanza.
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
She begins to picture running away. Leaving this rubbish place behind and going to look for the Doctor. Perhaps he got lost! Or maybe someone hurt him. Her legs begin to make her go faster and faster the wood screeching her fear to the world. In her mind's eye she sees her raggedy man separated from his box, alone and unable to come for her. He needed her help, she had to help him.
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
As she said those last lines there is a loud snap and suddenly she goes arching into the air and with a scared shriek hits the ground in a cloud of dust and a sharp pain shoots through her left arm. She looks down at in in fear for the worse, luckily she sighs in relief at the sight of her arm in one piece other than a mean angry red burn. She looked at her sad swing, the left side rope is broken and she sighs at the though of needing to fix it. "Well Amelia looks like you need to buy some ropes." She got up and turned to leave for the store, then runs inside to grab some money.
((Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson))
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Amelia found herself swinging on the dilapidated swing once more reciting the lines of a poem. Her voice whispers softly full of quiet passion and longing. What had she done to deserve this shunning? Slowly her short legs pump her higher into the air, the wood creaks and groans of old age, the wind whistles softly in her hair of travels through the stars. She continues onto the next stanza.
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
She begins to picture running away. Leaving this rubbish place behind and going to look for the Doctor. Perhaps he got lost! Or maybe someone hurt him. Her legs begin to make her go faster and faster the wood screeching her fear to the world. In her mind's eye she sees her raggedy man separated from his box, alone and unable to come for her. He needed her help, she had to help him.
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
As she said those last lines there is a loud snap and suddenly she goes arching into the air and with a scared shriek hits the ground in a cloud of dust and a sharp pain shoots through her left arm. She looks down at in in fear for the worse, luckily she sighs in relief at the sight of her arm in one piece other than a mean angry red burn. She looked at her sad swing, the left side rope is broken and she sighs at the though of needing to fix it. "Well Amelia looks like you need to buy some ropes." She got up and turned to leave for the store, then runs inside to grab some money.
((Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson))