Title: integration
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael, Ruadhan, Annaliese, Conall, Hernén
Prompt: billradish: "practical gifts"
Word Count: 1484
Notes: sometime after secondhand boots, relatively early in the first war. Includes a new version of an August 2005 era comment-snip that was never incorporated into the indexes.

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( After the boots came a coat, given with as much careless grace as the boots had been. )

Title: crossroads
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses Wars; Isael, Ruadhan
Prompt: 44D "two roads"
Word Count: 1081
Notes: approximately concurrent with language for thieves and liars (christ, that was really five years ago?), early stages of the first war.
Ruadhan's singing a bit of a Great Big Sea song, in case you're curious.

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( They'd stopped for a mid-afternoon meal, stepping off the dusty track to open carry-cases and sit down for a while. )

Title: lunch is happening, whether or not you meant it to.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses (wars); Isael, Conall
Prompt: 02B "good"
Word Count: 482
Notes: A friend was having a kinda meh day yesterday, and she'd asked for 'Conall bugging Isael to sleep/eat and/or finding him after he's finally keeled over. ' at some point, so.

( Someone fell into step with him, as easily as he fell into his father's shadow )

Title: light and warmth
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael, Conall
Prompt: 30B "heart"
Word Count: 326
Notes: dormouse_in_tea suggested "indoors, very windy outside." My brain replied "Oh, of course! Following longest night, obviously!" Because my brain is on the special crack. This would be Isael's first winter in the Trickwood, during the first war ( Read more... )

Title: sweetgrass and smoke
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Natalia, Aodh, the chaos!twins
Prompt: 17C "superiority"
Word Count: 407
Notes: She's feeling a little overwhelmed. Third person present; Natalia is the new wife of one of Hazel's sons. I think this is the latest in the chronology.

( Their sisters are terrifying, she thinks, though for very different reasons. )

Title: it counts as a meeting
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael, Conall, Joshua, Hazel
Prompt: 33B "normal"
Word Count: 496 543
Notes: First war, relatively early stages. She's around five.

( 'Somebody head her off!' )

Title: telltale civilization
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael, Madame Lehseet
Prompt: 93C "call"
Word Count: 254
Notes: dormouse_in_tea requested something around the time period of breath and shadows. It's also a coda of sorts to the longish sequence I did with Isael last April, an index of which is here. (scroll down for the consolidations)

( 'You may tell me what kind of tea you will have' )

Title: not thinking about that, thanks.
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael
Prompt: 15C "standstill"
Word Count: 450
Notes: sometime after the wars, not sure exactly when. Warning for images/

( in dreams )

From this post.

( 'hot dusty wind whispering fire to the dry grasses'; Wild Roses, Trickwood Unification, Donel )

From this post.

( 'the tolling of a clocktower'; Cathedrals, Sanke )