Title: play the hand dealt
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh, Aodh
Prompt: 89C "wealth"
Word Count: 691
Notes: Follows from stacking the deck. First time I've written her in first, sketchy, and I still don't know what on earth she's up to.

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( Having my cousin aboard for navigator was stranger than I'd expected. )

Title: go tap the library
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh, Giovanni
Prompt: 65C "mergence", coastal_physics being a Navy fan
Word Count: 473
Notes: "Are we hosting a war or something?"

( She damn near dropped her jaw when the greeting-roar from the ship tacking out from the harbour reached her )

Title: stacking the deck
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh, Aodh
Prompt: 57B: "flashback"
Word Count: 745
Notes: after for the attempt, before the gloating comes later.

( 'I'm having flashbacks to the time I tried to teach you to swim.' )

Title: knot a rope 'round my temper
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh Manannan
Prompt: 23D "distasteful"
Word Count: 912
Notes: She's not the smugglers' terror Gideon is, or the sailors' legend Giovanni is. She doesn't need to be.

( It's not enough to be a good sailor. )

Title: the gloating comes later
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh, Aodh
Prompt: 72A "imitation of life"
Word Count: 325
Notes: before the wars.

( Something poked her shoulder. )

Title: uncharted waters
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh, Aodh
Prompt: 88B "hug"
Word Count: 638
Notes: Prompted by a request. Expanded from well. tha's a problem. Still sketched.

( She'd been itchy for hours. )

Title: Well. Tha's a problem.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh
Prompt: 76C "nameless"
Word Count: 171
Notes: Uncharted waters. They're in uncharted waters, half a day from home.
Prompted by a poll response.

( The chart's wrong. )

Title: foreign waters
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses, out-of-context; Commodore Niamh Manannan-Sabaey and crew
Prompt: "manannans" - non list request
Word Count: 172
Rating: all ages
Notes: Technically someone else's playground. Please let me know if this is Obviously Not Right.

( There are mermaids in these waters. )

From this post (locked).

( 'feathers, in that bright red/orange you see in fall'; Witches' Horses [Falcon's Feathers], midarc )