Title :: Baptismal
Prompt :: August 24th, “I'm almost drowning in her sea” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Kotori, Saya; Saya/Tohru implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 177
Summary :: As if from worlds far away, she is dimly aware of her brother's calling, and even here, even now, she clings to his words.

( oh sometimes infection just creeps in )

Title :: Divinities
Prompt :: August 23rd, “I belong in the service of the queen” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Saya; Saya/Tohru implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 110
Summary :: She does not bother with divinations of the future, knowing already all that she would see.

( like hushed secrets belying the sprawl of leaves within )

Title :: still waters
Prompt :: August 21st, “when you open up your wings to speak” [31_days]
Pairing :: 6996
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 101
Summary :: Come to me, he says, and you will learn to navigate the dark.

( And she listens with the intensity of a blind child desperately at prayer. )

Title :: Poles
Prompt :: August 20th, “sleeping underneath your skin” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Himawari; Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 101
Warnings :: Set during volume ten.
Summary :: She wonders what she would find, if she could pry open her skin, if she could look beneath the layers of them creeping like a secret up ( Read more... )

Title :: Solstice
Prompt :: August 19th, “there's a bird that nests inside you” [31_days]
Pairing :: Watanuki/Himawari; abstract mentions of Tanpopo ♥
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 160
Warnings :: Set during volume ten.
Summary :: He can touch her, in his dreams.
Notes :: GEE I BET NO ONE EVER I GUESSED I WOULD WRITE THESE TWO FOR THIS PROMPT WHAT A BIG ( Read more... )

Title :: headpiece filled with straw
Prompt :: August 18th, “feathered by the moonlight” [31_days]
Pairing :: Remus/Sirius
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 177
Summary :: He has never been afraid of growing old.
Notes :: Title is, of course, from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. ♥

( he rises stiff-spined and creaky-hinged from bed, and almost smiles at the spill of Sirius' hair across his pillow, at the way it is now painted through with grey )

Title :: Primordial
Prompt :: August 17th, “beside the green apple sea” [31_days]
Pairing :: 6996
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 125
Summary :: She thinks not of gardens but of seas.

( We will cast the rest of the world asunder, and nothing matters beyond the gates of our own arms )

Title :: Mortarshells
Prompt :: August 16th, “the crumbling distance between wrong and right” [31_days]
Pairing :: 6996
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 100
Summary :: She is his tower, and he is her wall.

( fit so closely even no mortar dares exist between the stone-curve arch of their hands and spines )

Title :: Solder
Prompt :: August 15th, “under the gun” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Squalo; XS
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 155
Summary :: It's better this way, now that I can touch you and not burn.

( He is his sword, and his sword is his hand, and he and his blade are his. )

Title :: Entanglements
Prompt :: August 14th, “will you catch if I'm falling?” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Himawari; Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers for volume ten.
Wordcount :: 150
Summary :: She does not know how she has the breath to scream.

( a moment, a moment, a moment is all it takes )