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A message in the woods [RP for ban_fathach]
The woods around them were silent except for the sound of the two wolves breathing. Their howls of pleasure chased all but the bravest creatures far away and those precious few certainly weren't going to make their presence known for fear of ending up the way the deer had ( Read more... ) -
Birthday Girl
The main lodge was decorated as if for a child. Neela hadn’t had a party since she was eight so the balloons and streamers made her giddy with pleasure. The pile of brightly wrapped presents astonished and thrilled her. She didn’t feel any real urge to open them because she was afraid the magic of them would disappear once the paper went away. ( Read more... ) -
Street Where You Live
For years her home consisted of a big duffle back, much too large for a girl her size to manage without her superior strength. In it she carried clothes, a blanket, a couple of books, and nothing else. There was little point in carrying anything else. Possessions only attracted attention ( Read more... ) -
Cruel to be kind
Neela sat with her head down over her plate, her hair and face almost entirely covered by her sweatshirt hood. She ate quickly, tuning out as much of what went on around her as she could. Her superior hearing made that difficult, but years of practice ignoring all her senses helped. Only when the argument near the end of her table got to the ( Read more... ) -
Utopia
The bed is huge, more than big enough for a giant who tends to sprawl. And snore. A huge window takes up most of the living room wall, opening the room to include the forest beyond the cabin. The porch half faces the rest of the compound and half faces the woods, making it just private enough to allow open touch without fear of exposure ( Read more... ) -
Early morning blues
She tossed and turned in the bed for at least an hour before she finally got up. Tossing and turning meant something very different in the narrow berth than it would have in their big bed at home. All she could do was shift her hips a half inch one way, then an inch the other, and finally a half inch back. She moved her hand up and down his side ( Read more... ) -
Hoping for just this
1. I'm looking forward to days alone with Jacob on a train. We were apart for so long that I can't bear to have him out of reach for more than a minute. At least before I could last a day or so when he was at his parish. Now I'm afraid he'll vanish on me. Too many things in my life fade in and out as it is ( Read more... ) -
Silence is Golden
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words ( Read more... ) -
As a hatter
She slept very little between leaving with Yevgeni and arriving in Ireland. What sleep she got was troubled or remarkably light. At first she convinced herself it was because she was look after the boy. She had to be vigilant with another life under her charge. Particularly when she had no real idea if they would take him in ( Read more... )