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 ( Read more... )

Title: Hi. I would like to know you better. :D
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; Fintain, several bemused wolves
Prompt: klgaffney: "charcoal burning down to fluffy white ash"
Word Count: 324
Notes: Remember how he was using wolf body language to flirt with the lady tiger hereYeah. I might have concerned my roommate with the chuckling as I ( Read more... )

Title: as she means to go on
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Joveta, Aleron, Lady Katerina of Autumn, Fintain, others
Prompt: darthneko: "patchwork water stains"
Word Count: 657
Notes: I promised zero_pixel_coun Fintain and Sascha's mum if she had to clear 200 tags for her writing stuff, and while she didn't get that for Finian's Ghost, her most active story, she ( Read more... )

Title: gift. sorta.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Fintain, Duncan, Hazel
Prompt: 37A "excuses"
Word Count: 685
Notes: follows decision made. This and the one previous were not written today (shocking, I'm sure). However, this concludes the wars requests. If you want more, ask.

( The boy--young man, really, wearing a coat a little too big and a little too armored to have been his long--was half-familiar, the way everyone was familiar if one could live long enough, uncles and cousins and fathers echoed in new generations, new voices drowning out the voices of their grandfa--oh, no. )

Title: right then.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe, Fintain, Arianhrod
Prompt: 09D "cut"
Word Count: 232

( She stood, rearranged her skirts to hang neatly, and walked very very softly towards the other room. )

Title: <3?
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; Hernén, Fintain, a tiger
Prompt: 09C "bonds"
Word Count: 547
Notes: Hernén is convinced Fintain has really strange taste in women. Prompted by a poll response and an email conversation. This is at least a year after the incident with Arianhrod and the crocodile.

( Fintain was in the lead again, about to cast about to the side of a pond when a head rose from the water and uttered a teeth-rattling growl. )

Title: repercussions
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; Fintain, Hernén, Arianhrod
Prompt: 33D "wrath"
Word Count: 275
Notes: follows this pretty directly.

( 'Oops. Is it dead?' )

Title: upon regaining consciousness . . .
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Fintain
Prompt: 44C "kiss"
Word Count: 333
Notes: zero_pixel_coun suggested 'cold stone'; goldjadeocean said 'Fintain' when presented with a list of options. Blame, however, belongs to me and Hazel.

( His youngest daughter had, when presented with a sword, been first disgusted, then resigned, )

Title: a beginning, maybe
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Hazel, Fintain
Prompt: 80B "stand tall"
Word Count: 630
Notes: After both wars. She's under twenty but not by much; I might try this again at some point, it feels a lot like mental finger exercises at the moment. First person present.
It's an interesting contrast to This is not the ( Read more... )

Title: cordite and saltpeter
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Fintain, Hazel
Prompt: 25A "just between us"
Word Count: 158
Notes: first war, just after fireworks. Prompted by a verbal request for Hazel.

( She'd been dozing )