Title: a rude awakening
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Aifiric, one of the Keep's managers-of-staff
Prompt: 13C "awakening", 'an appointment one would rather ignore' (klgaffney)
Word Count: 501
Notes: before winter quiet.

( The rat-tat-tat of knuckles tapping at the study door warned him, and he eyed the door with distaste, pondering whether he could pretend not to be present and thus ignore the meeting. )

Title: greetings
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; a foreign court, Joveta Sabaey
Prompt: 07B "lies"
Word Count: 586
Notes: follow up to you have a lovely daughter....

( Word had come by messenger that they were near, so the court had moved outdoors for the afternoon, shaded by cloth pavilions and papers kept from scattering by delicate weights made heavy with gems. )

Title: you've got a lovely daughter . . .
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Aifiric, Iarlaith
Prompt: 90D "triangle", Aifiric (billradish, klgaffney), 'a jaw sore from unconscious clenching' (klgaffney)
Word Count: 400
Notes: some time after winter quiet.

( When Iarlaith slipped into the room, door closing silently behind him, Aifiric flicked the letter across to the other end of the desk, motion slowing so it rotated just enough to be perfectly aligned for his brother to read. )

Title: appendix v.ii
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses [Sun Queen]; Aifiric, Phoebe
Prompt: 81D "pen and paper"
Word Count: 225
Notes: when poked with a stick, coastal_physics gave me 'ball lightning' as a spark. Early in their marriage.

( Something crackled by his ear, and he automatically swatted it with a flick of attention. )

Title: winter quiet
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Aifiric, Arianhrod
Prompt: 76D "broken"
Word Count: 274
Notes: somewhere in the middle of the Sun Queen's reign.

( He didn't stand, because he was well more than half again her height, still--she'd got far more leRoux blood than Sabaey. )

Title: right then.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe, Fintain, Arianhrod
Prompt: 09D "cut"
Word Count: 232

( She stood, rearranged her skirts to hang neatly, and walked very very softly towards the other room. )

Title: morning post
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe and a Hand
Prompt: 79B "flight"
Word Count: 286
Notes: This particular Hand has appeared in unfair advantages, repairs and Leaves. Nature's way of laughing at you.

( He found the Queen up on the roof of the Keep, catching paper birds with nets of sunlight. )

Title: point to him
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe, Aifiric
Prompt: 87B "kiss"
Word Count: 315
Notes: dormouse_in_tea suggested a moment of relaxation. I'm not sure this is what she had in mind.

( Her hair was done, small braids securing the golden torc of her rank at the top of her head )

Title: redirection of force
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe, Aifiric
Prompt: 63D "do not disturb"
Word Count: 321
Notes: Before trading across multiple realities was really feasible, gold, red and saffron dyes were incredibly expensive and as a result almost exclusively the province of the nobility. Then Ian happened. Then several ( Read more... )

Title: Leaves. Nature's way of laughing at you.
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Phoebe, a Hand
Prompt: 26C "authority"
Word Count: 385
Notes: same Hand as in unfair advantages and repairs. Requested by dormouse_in_tea

( You MUST be joking. )