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Røsslyng ([personal profile] roesslyng) wrote2019-04-01 02:52 pm

Vast [Sweden]

Title: Vast
Fandom: Hetalia
Characters/Pairing: Sweden (& I suppose Byzantium, technically)
Rating: 0+
Length: 100 words
Summary: First journey to Miklagard.
Other: Written for Daegaer for 2019 round 1 of [community profile] multifandomdrabble. Prompt was Sweden in Byzantium. :) [Ao3 version]
(Miklagard was one of the Old Norse names for Constantinople.)



Vast

Somehow, he made it through the long journey without dying.

The first time didn't go as planned. Tossed from his boat and nearly drowned, he felt waterlogged for days after. If he had been anyone else, the river would have taken him, giving no other chances.

But there it was: the Great City sprawling as wide and far as his eyes could reach.

The air thrummed with thousands of lives, noise and sights and scents assaulting his ears.

Finally in the place he'd heard so much of, he froze, still as a deer.

Never before had he felt so small.