Title: like a brick from above
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Helena, Sascha, Petrovich, Taarstad
Prompt: 66A "drifting"
Word Count: 396
Notes: 2/3, follows heartbeats in the dark

( All in the waitin' )

Title: no horses in Eljúdnir
’Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Helena
Prompt: 77B "religion"
Word Count: 373
Notes: between whoops and heh.

( Her name was odd. )

Title: . . hel.
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Sinclair
Prompt: 30A "once in a lifetime"
Word Count: 189
Notes: two to three weeks before arrest, for context. Because context keeps me from getting stabbed.

( it was the sort of opportunity . . . )

Title: tick
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Sinclair, la Grammont
Prompt: 25C "caution"
Word Count: 690
Notes: sketch of the ending piece in the Andreievich arc.

( Got him. )

Title: oh, he dances.
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Petrovich, Helena
Prompt: 32B "odd"
Word Count: 223
Notes: "And . . that doesn't strike you as the tiniest bit odd?"

( He's pacing. )

Title: surname
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Sergeievich, Stanislav
Prompt: 28B "battle"
Word Count: 317
Notes: after new arrival. Prompted by a poll response.

( Sonnuva-- )

Title: gleep?
'Verse/characters: Swallow' Tail; Taarsad
Prompt: 35A "a place where no one goes"
Word Count: 116
Notes: prompted by a poll response. After you gonna dance, or you just gonna watch?

( They're hiding, out in the black )

Title: I don't want to know.
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Sinclair, Ilya, la Grammont
Prompt: 92C "silver"
Word Count: 174
Notes: Third time sez boo.

( Sinclair looked up suddenly, staring into some middle distance Ilya couldn't guess at, then grinned. )

Title: it'll end. 'well', on the other hand . . .
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Sinclair, Andrei Andreievich
Prompt: 27C "mania"
Word Count: 312
Notes: Prompted by a poll response. Same sequence as hammers and wrenches and plans, plans, plans.

( One would think you'd have taken the hint of the hammer, Andrei. )

Title: Well. Tha's a problem.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Niamh
Prompt: 76C "nameless"
Word Count: 171
Notes: Uncharted waters. They're in uncharted waters, half a day from home.
Prompted by a poll response.

( The chart's wrong. )