mightymur | August 11, 2009
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.
~Watership Down
Dear Senator Daddy-
Thanks for your letter. It meant a lot that you were concerned about me. I know you will have heard about the attack from the school, [...]
mightymur | August 4, 2009
We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
~Richard Adams, Watership Down
Joseph and I broke up.
I should have listened to C.V. She was right, you can’t have a relationship in The Hutch, not when you’re focus on your own treatment. Your own therapy. Your own self-discovery.
I’ll hand him this, though. He really did make [...]
mightymur | July 28, 2009
Fiver, there’s been some trouble. Hazel’s been shot.
No.
The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.
Hazel’s not dead.
~Blackberry and Fiver, Watership Down
I discovered that blades in others’ hands get a different personality than in my own. Which incidentally goes against my Dungeons and Dragons reading, where an intelligent sword [...]
mightymur | July 23, 2009
Can you run? I think not… I think not…
~Cat, Watership Down
When I’m with Joseph, I’m free.
The rest of the Hutch is a stifling mess full of cliques and angst, fear and hatred.
When I’m with Joseph, there’s nothing but love and support.
No one knows. We don’t look at each other in lunch, C.V. Has stopped asking [...]
mightymur | July 10, 2009
They’d altered what rabbits do naturally because they thought they could do better.
~ Richard Adams, Watership Down
As weeks passed, It amused me that while the “no last name” rule was followed hard and fast, people still speculated, and even pried.
There was a small clique of senators’ daughters who looked down on those they assumed were [...]
mightymur | June 30, 2009
What’s happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies…
Look, we can’t go on like this.
It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?
~Pipkin, Dandelion, and Silver, Watership Down
You’re only brave if you’re scared first. If you don’t actually overcome anything, then it’s [...]
mightymur | June 23, 2009
Now, among the animals was El-Ahrairah, the Prince of Rabbits. He had many friends and they all ate grass together. But after a time, the rabbits wandered everywhere, multiplying and eating as they went. Then Frith said to El-Ahrairah, “Prince Rabbit, if you cannot control your people, I shall find ways to control them.”
~Narrator, Watership [...]
mightymur | June 16, 2009
Where are you going?
Away, to the hills.
By yourself, alone? You’ll die!
You’re closer to death than I am.
~Hazel and Fiver, Watership Down
As I stood outside tall iron gate of The Hutchins School for Exceptional Teens, the iron curlicues winked dully at me. They didn’t have a comforting edge; these were dull tips meant for bludgeoning.
I played [...]
mightymur | June 9, 2009
Hazel, look… the field… it’s covered with blood!
~Fiver, Watership Down
I didn’t know what the big deal was, but Senator Daddy said he’d had enough.
Yeah, that’s what I call him. He hates it. He says he’s Senator Jeffrey Donald Atkins III on Capitol Hill, but at home I should call him just Daddy. Whatever.
Senator Daddy never [...]
