[Wild Roses] Sun Queen

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: Common ground
'Verse/characters: Sun Queen; Arianhrod, Ulysse, Fintain
Prompt: zero_pixel_coun: "The age-old battle of libido versus self-preservation instinct (nooo, not slanted towards anyone in partiiicular, that one... honest...:P predictable, me? never)"
Word Count: 1360 1400
Notes: Well really. Given that prompt, who else would I be writing

Comments

[billradish]

Does Arianhrod refer only to Fintain as her brother? I was a bit turned around at the beginning, not being sure whether she was talking about Fintain or Ulysse.

That she was tall enough to look directly over Arianhrod's head Arianhrod tried not to hold against her. Almost all of her siblings were that tall or taller.

*cackle*

"He's been asking if she'd agree to a meal with him all week, and he's either finally wore her down or she's annoyed enough to agree in the hopes of being able to stab him with a oyster knife."

And if Fintain is interested in her, either is very possible!

she muttered, irritably twitching her braid to hang neatly down her back.
and
Arianhrod replied, glancing down at her skirts and irritably twitching one section back where it belonged. Wretched thing liked to cleave layers on her, and the spells that held the abstract jasper-patterns to the cloth had so far resisted her ability to pin the section where it belonged.

Arianhrod's having a bad fashion day, seems like.

"Oh, are we talking about Dad, then?" Fintain asked cheerfully

That he can make that leap says SO MUCH.

"Why else would I go sailing when I do?" Ulysse shot back. "But you get that with people--"

Of all the things for them to bond over...

"I hate you both," Arianhrod remarked into the silence as Ulysse turned back to her and Fintain looked to her for explanation of their half-brother's newfound insanity.

"Wait. He UNDERSTANDS me? What's WRONG with him?"

"If I actually want rescuing I've done something wrong," Fintain said, frowning at them

And THAT NEVER HAPPENS.

"If you show up tomorrow with stab marks and a grin, I don't want to know," she replied archly.

Good plan.

[taennyn]

She'll refer to both Ulysse and Fintain as her brother; everyone else gets half-brother, so far as I can easily determine. I'm thinking of adding 'little' on as a descriptor, on reread.

Arianhrod is having a Discontented and it's manifesting in irked at her hair and her clothes, yes.

That he can make that leap says SO MUCH.

Yeeeees. >.>

I do sort of love the 'If I actually want rescuing I've done something wrong', still. :) Also the line you pulled out to follow it. :D