You couldn't be more wrong commandant

Mary, did you know? 

over a waterfall she descended as a spirit of the blue and lively, and from the mist she took form as a dream

i fell a little in love

life emerges from the earth as if to welcome family. the flowers turn their faces to her, the creatures yip in greeting, the trees dance and bend

and speak. grandmother willow almost gave me a heart attack.

‘See,’ she commands through the heat in her fingertips a pulse like mine, forgiveness greater than mine, i had no choice when i met her gaze that strikes the soul with more fire and truth than a newly-tempered sword ‘See,’ and i allowed myself swept away from the burdens of earth to the soaring heights above

the wind loves her more than i can, keeps up with her spirit more than i can

and i fall the rest of my way in love

a blossom in late spring trimmed of her thorns, but her face doth turn one away.

an unclaimed flower, then, too late in spring. for she was born

of winter, unspoken truth burning in her throat enough to melt the snow, to challenge a mountain

to challenge the night

and she ascended from the footstool of the earth as an eagle from the skyline, swift and unfettered

and she brought the sun with her, a glow in her chest, a sword that cuts between the soul and the spirit.

her eyes are as stars? the fire in them is simply her truth that saves

brothers, kingdoms. it is the light that illuminates the earth and pulls back the curtain from darkness to dawn.

from her mouth came the truth. from her actions came her witness.

‘i am the dragon of the valley’

i am fa mulan

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(so they say)

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She was ever-changing, eyes stormy  one moment and sparkling the next.  There’s a saying, “Seize the moment,”  but she’s the opposite, like the moment  seizes her.

She could sing and the piano would weep.  She passed when my mother was young.

There is another saying that a beautiful maiden approached your grandfather and  they married. She had his child, grew old,

…and returned to the sea.

I tripped. Grandmother died that way?

My dear, your grandmother still lives. She

          is the sea.

Angels & Demons characters [4/?]: background stars

So jurisdictionally, this is––

Angels & Demons characters [3/?]: Commander Richter

That’s impossible, sir. No one––