Cantaloupe 16, Chocolate Chip Mint 20

[darkfaerieclaw]

Title: Nine Days
Story Continuity:  Battle For the Sun extra
Prompts: Cantaloupe #16: pecking order, Chocolate Chip Mint #20: uncomfortable
Topping: Whipped Cream (Kristen is 14 in the first and second pockies)
Rating: PG-13 for references to sexuality and human trafficking
Word count: 99 + 92 + 99 + 100 + 100 (pocky chain)
Summary: Kristen's life, from

Comments

[darkfaerieclaw]

Yeah, Kristen hasn't had it easy. It doesn't really get easier even after Cliff rescues her from Reynaldo.

Thank you - glad you liked this. :)

[fishwithfeet]

The mood through out each of these is just spectacular. I love how you're able to show the range of her despair and then the glimmer of lost hope returning without saying that specifically. Tis awesome!

[darkfaerieclaw]

Wow, thank you very much! That's quite the compliment. :)

[bookblather]

Oh, oh wow. I just. Wow.

I know that you're a brilliant comic writer, and then every so often you put up a piece like this or like the one with Valentio dying and remind me that you're a brilliant dramatic writer as well. I love the little touches especially: Kristen trying not to see Auto Eroticon 4, the constellation Cygnelius (!!), "what was happening here below. Or atop here," Cliff (Heathcliff!), all of this, wow.

[darkfaerieclaw]

I am blushing so hard right now. Seriously. This means a lot, especially coming from someone as amazing as you. I mean, I think of myself as generally okay, but, um. Really, brilliant? Oh, wow. <3333

[marika_kailaya]

After that incident, Kristen hung back and allowed herself to be kept.
y'know, the tone of the entire chain is heartbreaking and numb all at once--but this is the line that really hit despair in my head.

also:
She wondered which were dead, glimmering on light borrowed from memory.
this is incredibly beautiful.

[darkfaerieclaw]

Thank you! Those were the first two lines that I thought of for this. I'm very glad you like this!