The buttery-warm light of late afternoon a ways away from the vineyard seems to soften the whole day, moments running together and the ease of it all making it so easy to forget what's waiting when they return to Cimmura. For a few hours, nobody needs either of them and Martel has a bottle of the wine they came to taste in his lap, his head resting ( Read more... )

( Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. )

Every now and again there are events that touch many lives instead of the usual one or two. This is less of a ripple than it is a blast radius, as these things can be ( Read more... )

( The Permissions Meme. )

The Character Expression Meme
Character: Lady Petrana, Countess of Gatas
Journal: herquietude
RPG: taxonomites
( why do i do these things, i do not know. )

( The New, Improved Character Survey of Doom )

Petra has grown accustomed to sleeping alone ( Read more... )

( oh lovely matter dry-winged rose as i drown i climb your petals my feet are burning with fatigue i kneel down in your hard cathedral thrashing my lips with an angel )

( A jet locket and four portraits at varying levels of appropriate are his remaining legacy in her life (the ring is long gone by now, hurled through tears without any thought for where it might land); she might've burned his image to cinders if a part of her weren't afraid of igniting something better left to cold and quiet and accounts that won't mention her name. )

Character name: Petrana, Countess of Gatas
Genre (TV/books/etc): Books!
Fandom: The Elenium! (original character.)

Canon point: Petra will be joining Taxon from roughly around the end of the second trilogy, called 'The Tamuli'. This puts her roughly in her late forties.

Why this Character and Canon point?: Petra is a character of my own that was ( Read more... )