Eight Years

by StarlightSystem

Summary:

Written for the eighth anniversary of the Transcendence AU blog.

Dipper stopped short, causing his sister to almost collide with him.

“Hey, what gives bro-bro!” Mabel grouched. “I almost dropped Waddles!”

The light of the candle in his hand flickered, casting long shadows against the cave wall, and in them no words or pictures could be found. The mysteries from their youth had disappeared, crawled out into the open. He’d studied them close with clarity he couldn’t have dreamed of as a human.

And yet…

“Do you feel that?” Dipper whispered.

Mabel tilted her head. “Well, my head’s pounding from bashing into your back. Why? Is something up?”

He was silent for a moment – enrapt by the smallest sounds of water dripping, of creatures deep in slumber, of magic bubbling through the Earth’s core.

“I dunno,” he replied at last. “Today just feels important, somehow.”

He looked ahead, past the warm glow of the candle, into the murky depths. The light had already shed answer after answer. But mysteries still walked, shrouded by the veil of darkness, in the night sky, and beyond.

Notes:

From all of the mods here, we want to thank you for your love and participation over the years!

It has been a thrill seeing an entire world bloom from the shared ideas of many that were inspired by Mod Z’s original post. The stories and art about Alcor and Mizar’s misadventures, from their found family with Henry and the triplets, to the millions of reincarnations that followed, have outlived Gravity Falls the show itself. Even if things have gotten quieter over the years, we hope you’ll continue to be here with us, reading and writing, drawing and watching, lurking and asking.

(It’s said that all things die; including Alcor. But that isn’t for a long, long time.)

Series this work belongs to:

• Part 21 of TAU drabbles