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[Witches' Horses] Sibir

Jan 28, 2010 21:41

Title: bad news
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Stas, Nadya
Prompt: celeloriel: "names on a list"
Word Count: 395
Notes: Yeah, that's Lev Petrovich from over Swallow's Tail way.

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( The checking of the list was rote behaviour. )

stas, list e, herding the witches' horses, sibir, nadya

Comments 12

billradish January 29 2010, 05:45:55 UTC

Stas and Nadya are just cute.

I keep forgetting that Stas is older than Lev. Lev just feels older.

taennyn March 22 2010, 03:40:18 UTC

They really are.

He kinda does, yeah, up until I catch Stas in a less laughing mood. They wear their vet status in very different ways (which is trite and a little inane, but feels like it needs stating?), which I think really affects Lev Petrovich's appearance of age.

coastal_physics January 29 2010, 10:57:47 UTC

daww..

they are cute.

taennyn January 29 2010, 16:01:41 UTC

They really, really are. :)

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taennyn March 9 2010, 04:07:21 UTC

Yeah; it's always a little bit of a jolt when the war story rears its head that little bit extra and I really notice it.

Stas and Nadya are a lot of fun to write. :)

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taennyn March 9 2010, 04:04:24 UTC

It's a war story, which I never forget really, but sometimes it's much sharper about being a war story than others. It's always a little startling how it works out--because the people within the context of the story aren't surprised by things sucking. 's a war, bad things happen, but as the writer it sometimes startles me.

(the Wild Roses mess is much more emotionally ouchy for me, because for a long stretch it's not an open acknowledge war, so everyone's getting ripped to shit emotionally and taking me with them. But Sibir . . it's almost calm about it.)

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taennyn March 9 2010, 16:41:23 UTC

(Really, really does, yeah. =\)

klgaffney February 14 2010, 22:38:49 UTC

Actually, considering some of the places Stas himself had been in, he maybe should be thinking about what sort of twist of God's fingers had kept him alive, not what'd got his cousin dead.

*wince* yeah. trufax.

i like that he went to find her without really thinking, and i especially like the warmth at the end.

taennyn March 9 2010, 04:05:50 UTC

i like that he went to find her without really thinking, and i especially like the warmth at the end.

Thanks; for all I joke about their Torrid Affair, they're really a good quiet solid match, which is neat to write.