[Wild Roses] Trickwood Unification

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: reinforcements
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; Hernén, Belladonna, Donnel
Prompt: 73F "delivery"
Word Count: 1851
Notes: follows downriver, uphill. Now I just need to figure out where Ruadhan's gotten to. *eyes*
I am apparently currently into long sentences.

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Comments

[billradish]

Sapierre had both shoulder-scales from eight corpses, each of them nearly as long as his forearm, and partials from two others. He was apparently planning to see if he could carve armour out of them.

How wide are they? *curious*

But Waycross was clear, which meant Ulysse's order of tea could finally go directly down two sets of rivers instead of the awkward portaging route Geoffrey had engineered around Waycross. Belladonna had wandered up with the first of the supply runs to inform him that his crazy mage brother had promptly tripled his order, and wanted to know if he had any of 'that cider, he knows the one' going spare.

bwah. Of course he did.

"Big delivery this time," she told him, but wouldn't explain herself. Just grinned whenever he asked, all long red tongue or pale teeth, depending on her form.

Oh, Belladonna. *snerk* I do love their relationship of mild mutual trolling.

She laughed herself hoarse, had to pad off to the side of the trail to catch her breath, but once she did, she just shook her head at him, grinning

[taennyn]

Not exceptionally wide--suckers climbed vines to get around, so they tended a bit to long and slinky--maybe five or so inches? I think Sapierre's pondering top-of-shoulder or outer-curve-of-forearm gear, once he works out how to cut them. They had to sort of carve around the big scales to get them off the bodies.

Ulysse points out that he did know what cider was being referred to.

I think Belladonna trolls Hernén so much just because his very view of existence occasionally trolls her. She is not so used to a couple-generations-from-mage mageblood's options.

I suspect Loki-horse is one of Thekla's many-times descendants, if only for the 'so. BORED' problemsolving.

I would love to hear the expanded babble section behind these thoughts.

I think I need slightly more context on what you're asking for?

[billradish]

Nice. That's about what I was picturing, but I wanted verification.

I would point out that I was also referencing the tea.

Exactly! They troll each other. It just isn't always intentional from Hernen's end.

Yeah. That...really sounds right.

Hernen knows/knew that Donnel keeps company with wolves. It would be interesting to hear about his perspectives on that, how he'd heard about it, and what his initial reactions were. And now that Hernen is keeping company with wolves himself, how is this changing his perception of his half brother?

[taennyn]

Ah. Hernén doesn't have the context for Rosenthal--he's much too young--so he doesn't know how and why Dón started associating with wolves. All he sees is that his half-brother has more-or-less obvious company, and always has. Now that he's associating with wolves himself, he's reeeeally starting to wonder why that started, and what both sides are getting out of it.

[klgaffney]

phosphorus and magnesium is your friend. your very hot and flashy friend.

I'm sorry, my brain has been sidetracked and eaten by the concept of having and holding and making armor of monster scales (what shiny dead things from other worlds?)

*thinks* okay, on the re-read, it looks like this is one of those incredible expanding story ones. it feels very dense and over-load-ish in my head.

[taennyn]

You get to love your hot and flashy friends in the Trickwood, yes.

>.> I might have 1600 words of a (very) small partial expansion of the beginning of this, yes. It started life as the beginning of this one, and then wouldn't have flowed to where this one ended. Well, not without some large number of thousands of words, anyway.

[klgaffney]

Wild Roses is still living up to its rep, I see. =D

[taennyn]

Did I say 1600 words? I apparently meant 2000 words.

Stupid fractal story.

[dormouse_in_tea]

Very nice. I only really saw one sentence I'd thump you for making too awkward with length. :P This is a lot smoother than most of your Wild Roses stuff of late -- settling back in?

[taennyn]

Not as such, no. More 'beat on it until it got where it needed to, cursing every step of the way'. =\ Argh.

I'm glad it read reasonably. :)

[taennyn]

I'm not certain Ruadhan's in direct evidence yet, but yes. 'Crazy mageblood has Even More crazy mageblood brothers! Do they ever stop?'

:D

It's interesting gradually getting to know people--Usoa and Niall both got mentioned in previous pieces in this set of posts, but not in combination--and starting to get a feel for things. There are So. Many. Names.

[klgaffney]

'Crazy mageblood has Even More crazy mageblood brothers! Do they ever stop?'

no.

no they don't. he has ALL the brothers. every one of them (and a few sisters too).

[taennyn]

And eventually he will have ALL the kids, too. I really don't think the Trickwood had any idea what it was in for. >.>