"All That Followed: Haven"
Title: "All That Followed"
Author: rissy-james
Team: Tin Man
Characters: DG, ensemble cast
Rating: 14+
Summary: "Haven". Her exhausted mind refused to allow her eyes to believe.
Author's Note: Written for Seasonal Challenge 04 @ tm_challenge. Prompt: "activity" ( my table).
All That Followed
Aftermath | Nightfall | Haven | Recovery
Haven
Dawn was breaking over the horizon when out of the mist she spied what, at first, her exhausted mind refused to allow her eyes to believe. She stumbled to a stop, second to last in their weary procession, so that only one other took notice of her. He sidled up to her, feigning ease, but she'd known the heavy drag upon every booted step that had carried him farther from the tower, and the deep, devouring uncertainties that lingered behind.
“Sight for sore eyes, huh, kid?”
In the pale grey of morning, the resistance camp was an illusion of sombre tranquillity, but through the haze of dripping fog that hung in the distance, the faint shadows moved with hurried activity. Somewhere beyond the wind moving through the boughs above her head, she could hear the shouts of men, the clangour of steel, the stamping of hungry horses.
The scouts reached them, and there was fear in their eyes, mistrust and disbelief. The men watched her sister, glinting silver in the witch's gown even in the gloom of shaded morning. They did not lower their weapons, even at Cain's command, even at her mother's softer plea. All they saw was a sorceress, inhuman, cruel, a woman who drank the lives of men like sweet wine.
Wary eyes were on them as they entered the camp. There was no safety to be found, no true place free of discovery, of retribution; far from here, on western plain, the battle was far from won. Word of the dead or captured would come slowly, incompletely, and she knew that she was yet to be rocked by the storm to come.
But for now, rest. Under dirty canvas streaked with the light of the rising suns, lulled by the smoke of cookfires and the murmur of voices, DG curled her arms around her sister, and went to sleep.
Author: rissy-james
Team: Tin Man
Characters: DG, ensemble cast
Rating: 14+
Summary: "Haven". Her exhausted mind refused to allow her eyes to believe.
Author's Note: Written for Seasonal Challenge 04 @ tm_challenge. Prompt: "activity" ( my table).
All That Followed
Aftermath | Nightfall | Haven | Recovery
Haven
Dawn was breaking over the horizon when out of the mist she spied what, at first, her exhausted mind refused to allow her eyes to believe. She stumbled to a stop, second to last in their weary procession, so that only one other took notice of her. He sidled up to her, feigning ease, but she'd known the heavy drag upon every booted step that had carried him farther from the tower, and the deep, devouring uncertainties that lingered behind.
“Sight for sore eyes, huh, kid?”
In the pale grey of morning, the resistance camp was an illusion of sombre tranquillity, but through the haze of dripping fog that hung in the distance, the faint shadows moved with hurried activity. Somewhere beyond the wind moving through the boughs above her head, she could hear the shouts of men, the clangour of steel, the stamping of hungry horses.
The scouts reached them, and there was fear in their eyes, mistrust and disbelief. The men watched her sister, glinting silver in the witch's gown even in the gloom of shaded morning. They did not lower their weapons, even at Cain's command, even at her mother's softer plea. All they saw was a sorceress, inhuman, cruel, a woman who drank the lives of men like sweet wine.
Wary eyes were on them as they entered the camp. There was no safety to be found, no true place free of discovery, of retribution; far from here, on western plain, the battle was far from won. Word of the dead or captured would come slowly, incompletely, and she knew that she was yet to be rocked by the storm to come.
But for now, rest. Under dirty canvas streaked with the light of the rising suns, lulled by the smoke of cookfires and the murmur of voices, DG curled her arms around her sister, and went to sleep.