Post by max on Mar 4, 2010 21:37:28 GMT 10
Title: Quilt
Rating: PG
Length: 351
Competitor: Faleron
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: Fairy tales and other stuff.
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The first time he takes her back to King’s Reach and shows her his favourite places, the way he once dreamed of doing, the entire household is in Corus, and they have the entire house to themselves – albeit covered in dust sheets – and they both prefer it this way.
His parents are open to the new world, because they are practical, rather than out of any particular desire to be forward thinking – lady knights, of which King’s Reach has a long history, are welcome; unmarried damsels less so, and his family can’t quite seem to figure out where to think of Kel, for all that they have told him they like her (that is quite exactly why they worry).
The downside is that it’s taking them much longer than they’d thought it would to find the sheets and blankets they need, searching through chests and linen closets, to make up the one bed they need in the enormous castle.
While negotiating pillows that aren’t all lumpy, he hears her intake of breath and turns.
‘What is it? Moth spells?’
She is bent over a chest she’s opened, and he sees a flash of colour in her hands.
‘Oh.’
The bedspread is multicoloured, made up of many millions of rags and off cuts of the fabric that once made up his great grandmother’s ball gowns – fine silks, appliquéd velvets, delicate seed pearls and so many colours that the effect can be a little hypnotic, if you look at it too long.
‘When I was small it used to make me think of that story about – ’
‘The Queen of the multicoloured bedchamber,’ she says, finishing the sentence, eyes shining.
He looks at the pile of sheets they’ve lumped together on the floor, then back at Kel. The colours on the quilt are reflecting up onto her skin, along with shards of light from crystals and gold and silver thread. ‘I guess we’re set then.’
As soon as they’ve made the bed they make love with the quilt cast over them so that the light that comes through is a haze of colours.
Rating: PG
Length: 351
Competitor: Faleron
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: Fairy tales and other stuff.
…
The first time he takes her back to King’s Reach and shows her his favourite places, the way he once dreamed of doing, the entire household is in Corus, and they have the entire house to themselves – albeit covered in dust sheets – and they both prefer it this way.
His parents are open to the new world, because they are practical, rather than out of any particular desire to be forward thinking – lady knights, of which King’s Reach has a long history, are welcome; unmarried damsels less so, and his family can’t quite seem to figure out where to think of Kel, for all that they have told him they like her (that is quite exactly why they worry).
The downside is that it’s taking them much longer than they’d thought it would to find the sheets and blankets they need, searching through chests and linen closets, to make up the one bed they need in the enormous castle.
While negotiating pillows that aren’t all lumpy, he hears her intake of breath and turns.
‘What is it? Moth spells?’
She is bent over a chest she’s opened, and he sees a flash of colour in her hands.
‘Oh.’
The bedspread is multicoloured, made up of many millions of rags and off cuts of the fabric that once made up his great grandmother’s ball gowns – fine silks, appliquéd velvets, delicate seed pearls and so many colours that the effect can be a little hypnotic, if you look at it too long.
‘When I was small it used to make me think of that story about – ’
‘The Queen of the multicoloured bedchamber,’ she says, finishing the sentence, eyes shining.
He looks at the pile of sheets they’ve lumped together on the floor, then back at Kel. The colours on the quilt are reflecting up onto her skin, along with shards of light from crystals and gold and silver thread. ‘I guess we’re set then.’
As soon as they’ve made the bed they make love with the quilt cast over them so that the light that comes through is a haze of colours.