[Witches' Horses] Swallow's Tail
Title: Things that don't mix
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; outside perspective on Sascha, Helena and Petrovich
Prompt: 92D "rape"
Word Count: 2261 2282
Notes: Follows not everyone's treat food; early stages of 3 (not that Helena would ever admit that). They arrived in Berezniki in exchange of politenesses; they appear to have been in ( Read more... )
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; outside perspective on Sascha, Helena and Petrovich
Prompt: 92D "rape"
Word Count: 2261 2282
Notes: Follows not everyone's treat food; early stages of 3 (not that Helena would ever admit that). They arrived in Berezniki in exchange of politenesses; they appear to have been in ( Read more... )
I like that he calculates that out. I like that he needs to.
The three people passing by his shop looked like solid trouble in several flavours.
I am so amused that it's fairly likely that so long as I knew we were in this verse, I'd probably be able to pick out who it was he was talking about, even without the icon and header info.
in his much-varied life.
Like that phrase.
The war had taught Oleg that invisible excellent service was just as effective as smiles and laughter, and less dangerous to his hide. He did his best to ignore trouble, in the hopes it would ignore him right back.
To my eye, Oleg is laying it on a bit thick about how hard his life is/has been. Which, in all honesty, makes him more believable to me.
If he'd grown up in a terem Oleg would ask Ilya Sevastanovich for a job tomorrow,Would recommend using "that one" instead of "he'd" ( ... )
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Important things for Rostovich to consider. How seriously do Sascha's people take feuds? And this man was raised by the woman he's talking about. That's important, that.
"Oh," she was growling at the Russian as she unslung the pack from her shoulders, "I'm just going to let you pick a fight with the local militia without so much as a boot knife, sir. Yeah. That's me."
Totally.
And while they're fighting, she'll be working on embroidering a pillowcase and crying about how she's going to die unmarried and entirely without value.
He had food, tea, water, and a project. He'd dealt with worse ( ... )
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And while they're fighting, she'll be working on embroidering a pillowcase and crying about how she's going to die unmarried and entirely without value.
...... ow, fuck, rib, laughing, ow--
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I also am somewhat amused that Sascha only talks about what his socialization says, as opposed to what he'd do. :)
Well, generally, he's a lot more laid back than that. =P Also, his actions are rather speaking for him at present.
...... ow, fuck, rib, laughing, ow--
\o/
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Yeah, Oleg seems like an interesting guy. *pokes him gently* I could kind of wish he wasn't so damn oblique about everything, though.
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I actually kind of like the oblique. It must be frustrating to write, but it gives you more details and information than you'd get if he was only thinking about what was right in front of him, right then.
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*nods* 's true. We wouldn't even suspect that Ilya Sevastanovich and his sister Tatiana existed without the oblique tendencies. Pain in the ASS to write, though. Took me three tries to get a glimpse of the layout of his tea shop. =|
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...yeah, probably not.
Exactly! Also, it makes me wonder about that girl at the bakery. She's the only person he mentioned that he didn't name, I think. *humms* And he definitely knows her name.
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Tatiana and Ilya are siblings, both the kid of a gent named Sevastan. -vich and -ova are patronymics. *considers* I may try tweaking that for clarity. Oleg seems . . . wary, of the lady. >.> So he liked to talk around her. (She's why he calls people from Constantinople and area Roman, instead of Byzanti, at that. Even if she's like fourth or fifth generation out, This Is The Right Way.)
He didn't tell me precisely what he did in the war--but he does seem to have been in the army in some form, as opposed to police/militia directly.
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I'm not surprised he's wary of her. She has Thunderer tattoos that don't have a source. SCARY LADY.
He didn't tell me precisely what he did in the war--but he does seem to have been in the army in some form, as opposed to police/militia directly.
Makes me wonder if, by what he actually did, he could have helped Ilya, but couldn't because of records vs reality, or simply calculating the cost as too high, because of records vs reality or some other thing. If the lady is sommat god-touched, she might not have been paying attention to little matters like what's on the paper.
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... Yeah, that might do it (additions re: militia Problems). I'll see if I can tweak it later. As in, not at an ungodly hour.
(Tatiana Sevastanovna says this is not an ungodly hour. And appears to have jumper cables. I think Oleg may be braver than we thought to be willing to drink at Ilya Sevastanovich's bar. O.o;;)
The lady is definitely sommat god-touched, and the invisible gentleman in question has an extant problem with dates and keeping track of little details like age and relative sanity. >.> I would not be shocked to find out Tatiana scared the bejesus out of Oleg when she demanded he help her break her brother out of prison.
(Edited to correct spelling error)
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\o/ Yeah, wasn't expecting you to do it NOW. Just thought it might help for later.
*pulls blanket over head and hides from Tatiana* She sounds great! So long as she's over there.
(side note; do you have any idea why people would be lighting off fire crackers tonight? seems to just be one set of them, but we've had them going off fairly regularly for going on five hours now. oO one or two every half hour, sort of thing, then a quick flurry of back to back bursts before it goes quiet again.)
(Now I want to know what the spelling error was...)
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*tweaks beginning, adds twenty words* *pokes it consideringly*
(No--I think this weekend is Presidents' Day, but firecrackers seems . . odd.)
(I spelled her patronymic wrong. She was Pointed.)
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