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Post by PeroxidePirate on May 31, 2010 3:06:44 GMT 10
Title: Moving Up Rating: PG-13 Prompt: #2 Walk the Line Category: 250 words Word count: 250 words Summary: Tansy makes a choice. (PD spoilers, for character but not plot.)
Tansy tried her best to be quiet, but her sister, Hedy, was waiting up. “Herun Lofts brung you home again, didn't he?”
“He did.” Tansy folded her hands together behind her back. With the newest ring on her right hand, the stone cut into her left palm.
“Did he give you another present?”
There was no point in hiding jewelry, after all. Tansy lifted her chin as she held out her hand.
Her sister whistled.
“It's just a token.”
Hedy laughed, bitterly. “A bauble like that?”
“It's nothing. To him, I mean.”
“It's plenty, to the likes of us.” Hedy looked around the sparse apartment. Their parents slept in the bedroom beyond, the little ones on pallets in the kitchen. Tansy and Hedy shared a bed in the corner of the main room. “David Leik stopped coming around quick enough, once Herun started walking with you. Tom Melkor did, too.”
“What of it?”
“Do you like Herun better?”
“He's a good man.”
“Do you love him?” Hedy insisted.
Tansy studied her hands. “Hedy, please...”
“Are you selling him flowers, then?”
“It's not like that!” Tansy snapped. “He's a nice boy. So what if I happen to pick the nice boy with the richest grandfather? Look around. Tell me you want to keep living like this when there's another choice.”
“That ring,” Hedy said. “It belongs on your left hand, doesn't it? You switched it when you came home. You're betrothed.” She made the word into a sneer.
“Yes. I am.”
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Post by journeycat on May 31, 2010 3:08:34 GMT 10
This is wonderful. Tansy is very underappreciated, but there is much, much more to her than others think, and I think you've portrayed that very well here.
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Post by PeroxidePirate on May 31, 2010 3:13:06 GMT 10
Thank you! I'm trying to understand her.
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Post by greenie on May 31, 2010 22:35:33 GMT 10
Ooh, I really like this! It's nice to see her thinking logically and not hysterically like she always seems to in the books.
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Post by PeroxidePirate on May 31, 2010 23:12:12 GMT 10
Thanks! I figure she got where she is somehow.
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Post by Rowena on Jun 4, 2010 3:54:22 GMT 10
I really like this! The relationship between her and her sister, how Hedy is mad at her for wanting something better, is fascinating. I like this glimpse of Tansy's character. Great job
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Jun 4, 2010 9:13:00 GMT 10
Thank you so much!
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