[LoA] (Daud/Farraj sesquidrabble)
Jan. 19th, 2008 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valmoraMovieverse. Takes place while Lawrence is going back into the Nefud to find Gasim, and Daud is acting as a marker while Farraj waits. ~160 words, PGish, gen if you squint really hard and haven't read certain sections of Seven Pillars.
I make no money from the creation of this piece, nor do I own the characters as portrayed in the movie, nor do I claim the incident depicted is historical fact.
It is pointless to watch the desert, or - not pointless. Foolish. To wait as though there will be something to wait for now, now, this next moment.
Farraj worries, of course. Even Daud, not so far into the Anvil, standing as marker for Al Aurens, could be lost. And Al Aurens, who is why they have been able to remain, who is strange and so frailly strong, and for whom Sharif Ali would do so much; he, too, could be lost - it is impossible not to worry. Farraj doubts that even Al Aurens can survive this, and fears that the Englishman will pull Daud into death with him, if only by never returning at all.
Farraj knows better to think that Daud is selfish enough to turn away from Aurens, to go on to Aqaba even long after hope is lost. Daud would wait, and die, and Farraj - Farraj doubts his own strength to go ahead without him.
I make no money from the creation of this piece, nor do I own the characters as portrayed in the movie, nor do I claim the incident depicted is historical fact.
It is pointless to watch the desert, or - not pointless. Foolish. To wait as though there will be something to wait for now, now, this next moment.
Farraj worries, of course. Even Daud, not so far into the Anvil, standing as marker for Al Aurens, could be lost. And Al Aurens, who is why they have been able to remain, who is strange and so frailly strong, and for whom Sharif Ali would do so much; he, too, could be lost - it is impossible not to worry. Farraj doubts that even Al Aurens can survive this, and fears that the Englishman will pull Daud into death with him, if only by never returning at all.
Farraj knows better to think that Daud is selfish enough to turn away from Aurens, to go on to Aqaba even long after hope is lost. Daud would wait, and die, and Farraj - Farraj doubts his own strength to go ahead without him.
