Tumblr crosspost (9 December 2020)

[anghraine]

brynnmclean said:

For the end of the year fic writer questions, 1. What’s your personal favourite thing you wrote this year? and 7. What’s your favourite piece of description or narration?

I replied:

I answered #1 here, and for #7 … hm. It’s got to be from the Lucy fic, but I wrote a lot on it this year. One of my favorite bits of narration, though, was this:

He should have been enraged, of course. He should still be. But he only felt tired—very tired, and very old.

In a rare moment of reminiscence, Vader let himself think back. His mind flitted from the Darth Vader of this miserable day, to a reckless young Jedi Knight, to a newborn slave beneath Gardulla’s palace. Yes, he’d counted right.

He was forty-three.