Title: finishing touches
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Lev Petrovich, Sascha, Helena, Taarstad
Prompt: 08C "release"
Word Count: 1220
Notes: After sunshine and oranges, includes a reference to the spark not wanting to move, for heat and humidityOne more scratched off the list of prompts that constitutes the outline for this story ( Read more... )

Title: consequence
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Sascha, Petrovich, Helena, Taarstad
Prompt: 83D "heal"
Word Count: 754
Notes: Sascha wasn't kidding about the consequences of Helena needing stitches. Still 3+1.

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( It was nearly an hour before the engines went quiet, and the gravity coils stopped lurching around like a drunk Russian at six of the clock. )

Title: just another day in the life
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Sascha, Helena, Taarstad, Petrovich
Prompt: larathia: "transcendental olympics"
Word Count: 210
Notes: 3+1, between an attempt at percussive maintenance and whoops.

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( Sascha automatically shoved a foot up to brace himself against the opposite wall when the horse abruptly yawed to the side )

Title: first gifts
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Helena, Taarstad
Prompt: 96C "clay"
Word Count: 743
Notes: after they're together, before he meets any of her relations.

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( She was sprawled out across the narrow bed they shared, eyes half-closed in bliss as her lover's rider's fingers played on her scalp, scratched carefully through her loosened hair. )

Title: an attempt at percussive maintenance
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Sascha
Prompt: 41B "negative"
Word Count: 917
Notes: this concludes the 2+ pieces a day for a bit, though I still have a few more pieces to do before I call it good for the month. This is sometime after bathtime.

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( Sverre knew he was getting used to the horse and her crew when he walked in on Sascha smacking the frame of a mirror with a mallet and barely blinked. )

Title: bathtime
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Sascha
Prompt: 74A "scars"
Word Count: 940
Notes: slightly after necessities.

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( Reluctantly dragging himself towards the banya, Sverre tried to remember how it worked. )

Title: necessities
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; ensemble crew
Prompt: 99D: "alone", klgaffney: "swallows, 3+1"
Word Count: ~1070
Notes: around the same time as smelling smoke (which is a sketch).

( 'Kid,' someone was saying )

Title: sunshine and oranges
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Theodora, Kyriake, Helena
Prompt: 85B "sun"
Word Count: 952
Notes: Concludes the requests for the Swallow's Tail bits. Includes an image from a comment snip.

( A sound of distant singing woke him, women's voices echoing against what for all the world sounded like stone. )

Title: god save me from summer.
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; ensemble
Prompt: 58B "self-esteem", interpreted rather more like comfort & familiarity
Word Count: 507
Notes: coastal_physics said 'Taarstad'; dormouse_in_tea said ". . . a rapidly changing pattern of lights." I figured I could expand this comment-snip. This is after Helena and Taarstad got involved.

( God the Father, it was hot out here. )

Title: smelling smoke
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Sascha, Helena, Petrovich, others
Prompt: 91C "echo"
Word Count: 976
Notes: incorporates much of no horses in Eljúdnir. This is several days after names.
Realistically speaking this is a thousand word sketch for an eventual five thousand words. >.>

( If he didn't know horses weren't actually capable of it... )