Spark me?

[taennyn]

Name, story-universe, word, phrase, situations, all good*.

*: The more specific you are ('Arianhrod, "You must be joking", blue cup') the more likely it is to be Very Short.

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Wild Roses
Phoebe, Lehseet, "what is it NOW?" (Sun Queen era)
unexpected rain (Queen-era, Arianhrod, Ulysse)
a metaphorical weather-vane (Jared, pre-Rosenthal)
mud

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Death be not Proud - " . . . she's squished."

[taennyn]

She felt him coming before he came into sight, the scythe draped across his shoulders, body a loose slouch but his head up and his eyes alert.

She kept glaring at the masonry block, and felt him come up to stand beside her, big pulsing presence along her entire side and over her head.

"What are we looking at?" he asked eventually, the butt of the scythe tapping against the cracked cobblestones.

"The worldly remains of the recent Queen of Pirates," she told him in a sour tone, hands propped on her hips.

" . . . I hate to say this, darlin', but that's a block of stone."

"Hm? Oh, no--" she reached over, dragged a booted toe through the dampness at the near edge of the block. "She's squished."

" . . . she's squished," he repeated, his lip curling in mild revulsion but he didn't back away. "What happened?"

"Evidently no one ever told her not to pick fights with engineers." She kicked the stone, refused to wince at the reverberation up her leg. "I wanted a chance at her

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[billradish]

<3

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[taennyn]

Writing these guys is a lot of fun. :) They're such a different experience than anything else I work in.

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[coastal_physics]

engineers that throw rocks eh?

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[taennyn]

The management cannot recommend annoying the shit out of the Freemasons. *solemn*

(I think it was 'drop rocks', not 'throw', but yeah, basically.)

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[klgaffney]

*kicks stupid not going thru comment.* ...i did not say anything deep or anything anyway. i like this one. it's very strong and Clear. and also, morbidly hysterical.

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[taennyn]

I have to admit his sheer bemusement at her reaction is kind of hysterical.

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[darthneko]

[facepalm] Such... eloquence. 'squished'. Oh dear.

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[taennyn]

Don't know the lady's name, but she apparently had enough of a reputation that the Morrigan was either theorising that she was another death (yay fighting!) or a bit of a throwback to legendary days (yay hero chomping!), and then she went and got a stone block dropped on her. The Morrigan is, as far as I can determine, rather offended that she didn't get a chance to poke the pirate-queen with a sickle point.