[Wild Roses] Trickwood Unification

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: wet feet
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; Hernén, Belladonna, etc
Prompt: 21F "get up"
Word Count: 1557
Notes: dormouse_in_tea: "the one wherein there is an unexpected visitor whom nobody, but nobody, likes."
After Hernén's first winter solstice among wolves, before Ulysse tracks him down.
I am still seriously rusty, argh.

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Comments

[dormouse_in_tea]

nice interpretation of the prompt! :D thank you.

[taennyn]

Thank you! I try. :)

[billradish]

Not mist, either, just enough water falling that one could call it rain without needing to curse about it.

Not that that kept anyone from cursing about it, after the winter they'd had.

Love those lines.

His had been one of the first of the tents, less because he was in charge and more because he was the closest thing to an active mage he'd found in the wood, and being able to let the delicately painted lines on poles and the stitched edges of the treated fabric keep the weather off him at night made a massive difference during the day.

Sound logic. I am now officially curious about the sequence of events around getting that first tent now, though. Mostly after.

oooooooh, their day sucks. Also, I love how you describe the wolves. <3

[taennyn]

:) Trickwood weather is apparently just as much fun as Navy weather, only you can't spell everything to repel water/dry quickly. Weather-curses are fuuuun.

Around the tent-period, mostly what I'm getting is a flash of the morning after he first slept in the tent. Sort of . . waking up to bright clear morning, instead of the weeks of fog you'd been wading through?

[klgaffney]

He sometimes woke up at night and found a different wolf sleeping there, but hadn't asked yet.

Hee. Worth watching, worth keeping, worth guarding.

They needed to grow accustomed to one another, and during the torrential downpour one of the younger wolves had figured out a horse was sick by the way the paddock's smell had changed. The occasional rearing and sharp-noted alarms--as long as nobody died--were worth it.

nice.

It took Hernén a moment to realise that he'd been the one to introduce the kid to horses in the first place, and breathed a "Well done" as they passed.

i like that detail too. says something about Hernén as a leader.

[taennyn]

Hee. Worth watching, worth keeping, worth guarding.

Exactly! But he doesn't have the cues to pick that up yet.

I think the impetus was ' . . why do you guys smell more like lunch than usual? *poke around* . . . Ooooh. Yeah, I need to tell someone about this.', but that didn't get passed along. They're trying to be polite, too. :)

:D Yeah, Hernén's better at this than he realises. The tendency to teach/explain what he's doing while he does it could probably be placed on who was involved in him getting trained in the first place, but the horses were Joceline's fault, and her choice in horse-masters sure didn't hurt.

[taennyn]

The food thing--that mages eat Way, Way more than they look like they should?

:) Which wolf are you thinking of? The one who woke him up, or the one[s] who aren't Belladonna who've been sleeping on the rug by his door?

[taennyn]

I do not think they are, if nothing else because I would expect Belladonna to be pulling from her own pack for 'I'm away and want the crazy mageblood watched over', and Hernén doesn't know the wolf who woke him up.

It's a mage thing to need more food. Shelter should be identical, unless the mage is building their own shelter every night, and not using alternate energy sources to power it (so they've got a constant drain while they sleep).