Title: never a firebird story
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Takashi, Arianhrod, Ulysse
Prompt: 56F "indirect"
Word Count: 2235
Notes: Linked in with so much for winter being quiet, is before on the hazards of sharing a bedApparently Takashi is how we start new prompt lists, considering he started D with 'breaking the rules'. O.o ( Read more... )

Title: pipe smoke
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Takashi
Prompt: coastal_physics: "a dewy morning, and a quiet pipe."
Word Count: 2768
Notes: Another partial expansion of river islands. After a merry chase.
This is the longest of the poll-responses so far. O.o; Sadly, it's still somewhat sketchy and hurried.

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( He was obliged to clear the vicinity after the remaining nearby patrols returned. )

Title: call
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Takashi
Prompt: 49B "burned"
Word Count: 562
Notes: Probably within (other option is just after) the sketch the game we play.

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( The Ambassador seemed to have given up on the listening spells. )

Title: dawn
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Arianhrod, Takashi
Prompt: 18D "under"
Word Count: 294
Notes: expanded from the spark "brown sugar sand", still fairly sketchy.

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( He's worn scars, but they've never been truth. )

Title: what's this?
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Takashi
Prompt: 00B "opening"
Word Count: 532
Notes: Variation on trouble talking, back at the beginning of their story.

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( I was bored. )

Title: so much for winter being quiet
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Arianhrod, Ulysse, Takashi
Prompt: goshawk: "the taste of copper and lightning"
Word Count: 1194
Notes: falls somewhere between a gentle sort of intimacy and on the hazards of sharing a bed.

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( 'Arianhrod,' a familiar voice said in my ear )

Title: found you!
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Takashi, Arianhrod
Prompt: 66B "animal"
Word Count: 732
Notes: after hiding, definitely well before like changing coats.

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( Sound carried over water strangely, made more so by carefully arranged spells that pulled sounds in like parabolic reflectors or hearing aids. )

Title: on the hazards of sharing a bed
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Arianhrod, Takashi
Prompt: 97A "illusion", klgaffney: "twisting leaf pattern"
Word Count: 274
Notes: sometime after a gentle sort of intimacy.

( She woke up abruptly when something human-sized tried to burrow under her. )

Title: like changing coats
'Verse/characters: Some Kind of Love Song; Arianhrod, Takashi
Prompt: 37D "see", 'a smell of smoke' (billradish)
Word Count: 485
Notes: next-to-last of the March requests; sometime during the Trickwood Unification, probably before the river baroness mess.

( There was a minor sizzling *pop!*, and she smelled smoke )

Title: the dvd used the encores as alternate endings
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Yasha, Aodh, Takashi
Prompt: 93A "pavement cracks", 'musky/spicy perfume' (billradish)
Word Count: 950
Notes: This was not one of the requests from March. *solemn*

( Aodh disappeared abruptly from Yasha's line of sight )