I spy with my little eye...
Week Name/Date/Time: 'A Moment's Peace'/Saturday, 8 October, 2005/2:30 pm
Loctation: 7th Floor Corridor
Open to: Will Sparrow
Currently involving: Liesl, Will
( I spy with my little eye... )
Loctation: 7th Floor Corridor
Open to: Will Sparrow
Currently involving: Liesl, Will
( I spy with my little eye... )
Her breath felt stolen from her very chest as her eyes drank in the serenely surreal vision. Was it a mirage? Some kind of oasis in the middle of the castle meant only for their sight? And if so, what about them was so parched, so empty, that they needed such a thing? Anxiously, Liesl cast her gaze over her shoulder, wondering if anyone else was there to see this phenomenon. But she and Will were alone, it seemed.
The glow emanating from within the huge indoor garden warmed her skin and she felt compelled to look again; even to take a step closer. Liesl had seen many enchanted rooms, ceilings, walls, TOILETS in this castle -- but she had never heard of this place. Not even a rumour. And in spite of her innate abhorrence of anything delicate and charming and beautiful (everything she was not), Liesl couldn't help but feel this place was... unmitigated in beauty. Yes, in spite of herself, she admired it.
"Is it... real?" she whispered to Will, placing a hand on the threshold, not yet daring to step inside. What if it was cursed? What if it was meant to lead people astray into the magic and then ambush them with something horrible?
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"Real enough for me," he answered cheerfully, watching the small creature light gently on a nearby flower bush. "Incredible...I didn't even know this room existed," he murmured in afterthought, turning to take a second look around the beautiful retreat.
'Man, Shihoko would LOVE this...' he couldn't help but think, and for the first time this week he felt unbothered by guilt or discomfort or any sort of anxiety. This place just radiated comfort, and even if he could have fought the soothing feelings it offered, like Hell he would!
"Come on...it's fine, I'm fairly sure."
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She realized she wanted very much to go inside, something pulling tight within her ribcage... but she was afraid. And wasn't she afraid of everything, when it came right down to it? Isn't that why she pushed people away, why she put up walls, why she didn't trust a soul especially now in times of trouble? Liesl would never admit this was the case, but it was a viable possibility that all her defense mechanisms were motivated by fear itself. Fear of losing... what she didn't even have.
One hand reached tentatively in, bathed in warm sunlight from a sun that didn't even exist. And as that glow took hold of her, Liesl's nagging doubts and fears began to subside, to melt away like ice on a summer's day. It felt... nice. The need to feel more overtook her and she set a food through the door. Oh, grand! It was as if some kind of medicinal comfort was flooding through her veins, up from her toes and fingers and straight to... well she had a heart, after all.
In an instant, she was all the way inside and running through a maze of sparkling hedges to meet up with Will. She realized the sparkles were fairy lights, twinkling as they communicated with one another. One of them danced into the air and lighted on her outstretched finger, regarding her with calmly oscillating wings.
Liesl actually... laughed. A foreign, light-hearted sound, as she turned equally sparkling green eyes on her Housemate.
O, wondrous!
[ edit: i so didn't misspell veins. >_> ]
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That, or a spectacular car wreck. One or the other.
But Will couldn't be anything but amused, watching her flit through the twinkling garden, settling himself by the stone fountain and watching the surrounding pool burble and catch the floating lights around them, sparkling with each ripple.
"Amazing...wonder if Professor Sprout set this place up?" he wondered aloud, turning his head in an effort to catch sight of anything and everything he could. Didn't want to miss a thing....the way the room had just appeared, who knew if he'd be able to find it again?
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"Eh?" said Liesl amidst her euphoria, blinking stupidly. "Oh, Sprout! D'you think so?" It was entirely probable, and yet Sprout hardly ever made time for anything not near the ground-level greenhouses. Why would she set up such a place on the highest floor of the castle? Someone was responsible for this fairytale, certainly.
And that's exactly what it was: a fairytale. Liesl plopped down beside Will on the fountain wall and dipped her hand in the pool, not even suspicious of the water's contents like she normamlly would have been. The liquid was cool but not cold, and sent her senses tingling pleasantly. Perhaps not ordinary water after all, but definitely not dangerous. The fountain widened near the back and curved around a mermaid statue, giving way to what looked like an exotic lagoon. The water was much darker, a much richer blue there, suggesting it was deep enough for swimming.
Suddenly Liesl wanted very much to go bathing, when she had never enjoyed it before in her life.
"Wartezeit, wait -- look." She pointed at the lagoon. "Isn't that pretty?" Pretty? Pretty? A word formerly not in Liesl's vocabulary.
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It was perfect. Nothing short of it. Distracting, comforting, enchanting...everything he needed. Likely Liesl as well, for the simple fact that he'd never seen her look like this, so unguarded and...
Happy? Yeah. Definately not a face often worn by Miss Jacobs.
"It is...all of this, it's incredible." Seeing her eyes stray out towards the deeper end of the water, he glanced at her and grinned. "Bet the water feels just as incredible. You want to test the waters, so to speak?"
Ha, yes, let her. He'd be a gentlemen and just...sit over here.
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Liesl blinked over at Will after his suggestion. It was the first time she'd felt uneasy in the past several minutes. But only a tad. "What, by myself?" she blanched. "I don't think so... no." Yes, let's just go bathing while Wuthering William sits and watches, yeah? "Unless of course you'd like to," she said slowly, guaging his reaction, "then I'd join you." What?! REALLY!?!
Okay so she really wanted to go swimming. >_>
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....well in THAT case...
Will brightened a little at that, grinning amiably at the girl. "Ah, well, I didn't know that you'd want me in there with you, is all. But, if that's your druthers, I haven't got any objections to it."
Ah, see there? Easy as pie to get this boy to do your bidding. Let's hope she didn't use that fact to her advantage once they got OUT of the room...
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"I'd rather that than have you watching while I bathed," she replied, snorting. "I suppose we could transfigure our clothes into suits? Unless you've got one of your own here that you could Accio." Liesl didn't, of course. The only opportunity that she'd seen for swimming had been the Black Lake, and she was far too afraid of large bodies of water to touch THAT. Unlike Will.
Wait! Wasn't she supposed to be afraid of swimming, water and all? What was this room DOING to her? Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if they just waded...
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"Me? I don't mind getting my clothes wet, so much, 'cause I DO know a good drying spell. Weighs you down a bit, but I don't think we're in any danger of drowning."
Ha. Bad things happen here? Never!
Tie? Vest? Off you come! And a rollin' of the sleeves...
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"Um, perhaps we shouldn't. I mean... what if the water is tainted or something?" she said feebly, looking for some kind of excuse that didn't involve confessing her fear of water. It was all her blasted parents' fault! If only they hadn't died on the water.
Well, it'd be nice if they hadn't died, period. But oh well.
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Oh....heavenly. He grinned widely and slipped off the edge, sinking down to sit on the bottom of this, the shallower end of the pool, which came up to cover his shoulders and lap at his throat.
"See? No drowning possibilities on this end. Come on in...I promise, I won't let you drown."
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