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Anti-OTP: Gabrielle/Pascal
Gabrielle needs something to occupy her time, and so she heads down to the library to pick out a book. What she finds, eventually, is a small volume of erotica from the Victorian era -- interesting enough, she thinks, to find out whether the most sordid of reading material has changed at all since her day ( Read more... ) -
Anti-OTP: Gabrielle/Curio
Gabrielle sits under a tree sketching, a blanket spread neatly beneath her to protect her skirts. The forms taking place on the page are nymphs, peering out from a forest, their smiles sly and secret. It's a beautiful day, and she smiles like her nymphs as she works. -
Anti-OTP: Gabrielle/Zara
Gabrielle is feeling bored, and perhaps a little lonely, so she fills a basket with a pot of chocolate and some good bread baked by Miz Deliverance. She puts on one of the dresses Zara made her, and with her basket and a bag of her fanmaking things, makes her way through the woods to the dressmaker's door. She knocks. -
Looking for Zara
Gabrielle has been Thinking, and Thinking invariably results in Ideas. And since in this case, someone else is needed in order to execute this Idea, Gabrielle packs up a basket with strawberries, fresh bread (of Miz Deliverance's making) and several packets of chocolate, and starts walking. By the time she reaches Zara's door she is a little wilted ( Read more... ) -
Open Post.
Gabrielle is out walking, without any particular destination. There is a bag slung over her shoulder containing the sign she has made for Zara, which she intends to deliver eventually, but for now she is simply exploring the grounds, enjoying herself. She carries one of her own fans, an elaborate creation of cream-coloured silk, lace, and ribbon. ( Read more... ) -
Open Post
Gabrielle has found and raided the library, and can now be found sitting in the main room with a pile of books close at hand, reading. She seems fairly absorbed in her current book (one on French history, written after her own time -- she is searching for familiar names and the fates connected to them) but would, as always, welcome company. -
Open post.
Despite her lingering weariness, an exhaustion of both body and spirit, Gabrielle has not been sleeping well. The third time her dreams wake her, she finds ink and paper and creeps downstairs to write.
( The letter. )