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Title: Building a Castle in the Sand
Author: Cicero
Fandom: Lawrence of Arabia
Pairing: Lawrence/Ali
Rating: PG
Summary: Lawrence went to the beach.
Email Address: Cicerothewriter@livejournal.com
Categories: Drama, Reflection
Feedback notes: Any kind of feedback will be appreciated, even if you just write me a one-line email telling me that you've read the story, and I will be happy.
Warnings: Depressing
Notes: I went to the beach, and while there, tried to build a sandcastle. After I returned home, I wrote this. I was going to make it into a drabble, but this ended up about 150 words (not including the title). I didn't really want to cut it up, so it stayed this way.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lawrence of Arabia or the real Lawrence. I am writing this for fun, not profit.

He did not normally do such silly things, but she, his friend, had asked him to build a castle in the sand.

Lawrence smiled, and said all right.

It was a lot more difficult than he remembered from his childhood. One had to quarry the sand, dig a moat, and protect the entire structure from the relentless waters.

Sandcastles were dreams, Lawrence mused. He remembered when he had sought such a dream: to build a structure of men and ideals. His devotion he poured into the dream, even more so when he could no longer give it to his love.

But like the sand, it fell away gradually. The harder he patted, the more he struggled, the sand - the dream - disintegrated, until there was nothing left but a dark circle where the disturbed sand lay, soon to be forgotten.

Lawrence wished it could be so for him, too.



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