Comments | lost_spook: Fic: The Cat, the Mouse and the Wardrobe (S&S)

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Fic: The Cat, the Mouse and the Wardrobe (S&S)

Aug 09, 2013 21:15

Title: The Cat, the Mouse and the Wardrobe
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1929
Characters/Pairings: Sapphire, Silver, Lead
Notes/Warnings: Pre-series, 1760s.
Summary: Completing an assignment is far more complicated when you’ve been forced to change shape.

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fannish scribbles, trope_bingo, sapphire, silver, lead (s&s), sapphire and steel, 100 element prompts

Comments 4

dimity_blue August 9 2013, 23:38:37 UTC

That was awesome! I love Sapphire being all distracted and realising just how much she wanted to catch and eat the mouse, and poor Lead, trying to laugh and failing miserably. The best though was Silver's indignation - not only at being laughed at but when he realised just what Sapphire wanted. It was funny and a little bit sad too.

Thanks for sharing. ♥

lost_spook August 10 2013, 15:50:33 UTC

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you liked it. :-)

corngold August 10 2013, 17:06:58 UTC

Huzzah, more S&S! I am becoming quite spoiled from all this lovely fic. Plus, after I read it I want to wander away from B7 and watch more...which I do plan to do at some point but would like to finish the current project first. But this is such a wonderful distraction.

The elements as animals is a fun concept right from the start. The shapes they are in here both suit each other nicely and do a good job of portraying each of them individually, and you describe the physicality of their forms well too - particularly Silver as mouse.

Yes. They’re retractable, says Sapphire - spot-on Sapphire ( ... )

lost_spook August 11 2013, 11:43:10 UTC

I'm glad you're enjoying it - whether this is good news or bad news, I don't know, but I can't seem to stop writing S&S, at least not yet... ;-)

And thanks for such lovely feedback! I'm really pleased you liked Lead - he's always the hardest to do, because there's less of him in canon and I find it hard to know what to make of him in some ways.

Also, Silver's initial pleasure at her intense interest in him, and then realisation of what it actually means, was a fun moment of humour amid the tension.

Silver-as-a-mouse will never not be fun, of course, but I enjoyed writing that bit - because it's perfectly natural-seeming to Silver that someone would find him that shiny and distracting. (He is, isn't he? :lol:)

And what their forms really are - are they always human shaped? Not? Is as mysterious as anything else in the series, so it's always interesting to play with that - as long as you can do it without giving too many answers. :-)