The knowledge that they’ll remember him as a coward rises in his mind like fog, and, finding nothing it can cling to, dissipates. He’s forfeited his chance to be remembered any other way – though he wishes Sirius could know something, could be chased by the spectre of him in some way other than this, a way more solid, with purchase and finality. He’s read in the old poets what happens to unburied men.
And: the certainty that his life is also the longest thing he’ll ever do.
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Re: sirius/regulus - want nobody to mourn
Date: 2010-11-25 05:37 am (UTC)This, especially:
And: the certainty that his life is also the longest thing he’ll ever do.