Still on the Quest

This one's from Howl's Moving Castle bookverse, although I love the movie too. Apologies to Diana Wynne Jones, whose universe this properly is, and thanks too! Thanks as well to Hayao Miyazaki, for filling my head with asthmatic dogs and a jackdaw's nest of wizardly delights as well as Sophie, Calcifer, and Howl.

(And it's for fictualities who I think might be enough of my own generation to remember the song!)

Sung By Heart

Calcifer hated the song, of course, but it kept coming back to Howl at odd moments, and he'd find himself humming it, or singing the words. He didn't even remember where he'd learned it first, although he knew it wasn't Ingary. The flickering light he associated with the tune had come from a television set and not a fireplace, from a time before he knew that magic was real.

"Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it get away."