Ok, I think I'm done weeping enough to give you coherent feedback- nope, gonna need another tissue. Well! This is the first Sam against the Wall fic I've read and it tore me up! I love all the fairy tale imagery which could have distracted but instead was fully integrated into a story so mesmerizing I thought, "Yes!" It could totally happen like this! the butler pauses in eating his nachos to give Sam a ring with thirteen keys. "You can open the first twelve doors, Sam. I advise you not to open the last." I didn't at first get that this was Death, but on re-reading, of course the phrasing was spot-on. Cool reveal! Not that Sam couldn't use the money, but he and his ruined heart will be faithful till the day they die. Oh, yeah, that's the stuff. Thanks for posting this wonderful fic!
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Date: 2011-01-08 01:23 pm (UTC)Well! This is the first Sam against the Wall fic I've read and it tore me up! I love all the fairy tale imagery which could have distracted but instead was fully integrated into a story so mesmerizing I thought, "Yes!" It could totally happen like this! I didn't at first get that this was Death, but on re-reading, of course the phrasing was spot-on. Cool reveal! Oh, yeah, that's the stuff.
Thanks for posting this wonderful fic!