Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2011 12:10:29 GMT 10
To: inthefire
Message: I know, I know, it's an over-used format on ffnet, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Happy holidays.
From: rosaxx50
Title: Five Facts about Raoul and Cythera
Rating: PG-13
Words: 324
Wishlist Item: 4 - Raoul/Cythera
Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin. Rated for suggestiveness.
5. Raoul initially told himself he'd never ask Lady Cythera for another dance, no matter how sweet she seemed, because there was no chance he would like a woman his aunts had suggested he court. He got around this by requesting she ask him instead, managing, in a single stroke, to keep his word, while shocking the court ladies who had been considering him proper enough to be eligible.
4. Cythera never told him she agreed because she had, in fact, had an eye on him for a while despite (or was it because of? Cythera would never admit to either) the rumors he was uncommonly close friends with Naxen. She did not think his vague notion of making his tormenters squirm extended to quite that.
3. They never expected to form a lasting relationship, and it was, maybe, one of the reasons they didn't. Nothing made this more apparent, to both, than the agreement to keep the relationship a secret despite the lack of impropriety should it become known. There was something thrilling about meeting in complete privacy, while Corus continued in its predictable patterns, but there was also something fragile in the relationship, easily broken unless kept safe. If that had not been entirely accurate, initially, Cythera would realize years later that their conviction had made it the truth.
2. Cythera and Raoul once promised in their foolish, distant youth that they would never stop loving each other. (He had been a little tipsy, still at that glorious stage when the fuzziness around edges of his vision was something to laugh about, not a welcome side-effect to a problem never fully conquered; she was drunk on relief, to be alive in the wake of an earthquake that shook the nation.) Maybe they had known even then that their trysts would not last forever.
1. Despite the love they eventually felt, lived, even breathed for other people, the promise never became a lie.
Message: I know, I know, it's an over-used format on ffnet, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Happy holidays.
From: rosaxx50
Title: Five Facts about Raoul and Cythera
Rating: PG-13
Words: 324
Wishlist Item: 4 - Raoul/Cythera
Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin. Rated for suggestiveness.
5. Raoul initially told himself he'd never ask Lady Cythera for another dance, no matter how sweet she seemed, because there was no chance he would like a woman his aunts had suggested he court. He got around this by requesting she ask him instead, managing, in a single stroke, to keep his word, while shocking the court ladies who had been considering him proper enough to be eligible.
4. Cythera never told him she agreed because she had, in fact, had an eye on him for a while despite (or was it because of? Cythera would never admit to either) the rumors he was uncommonly close friends with Naxen. She did not think his vague notion of making his tormenters squirm extended to quite that.
3. They never expected to form a lasting relationship, and it was, maybe, one of the reasons they didn't. Nothing made this more apparent, to both, than the agreement to keep the relationship a secret despite the lack of impropriety should it become known. There was something thrilling about meeting in complete privacy, while Corus continued in its predictable patterns, but there was also something fragile in the relationship, easily broken unless kept safe. If that had not been entirely accurate, initially, Cythera would realize years later that their conviction had made it the truth.
2. Cythera and Raoul once promised in their foolish, distant youth that they would never stop loving each other. (He had been a little tipsy, still at that glorious stage when the fuzziness around edges of his vision was something to laugh about, not a welcome side-effect to a problem never fully conquered; she was drunk on relief, to be alive in the wake of an earthquake that shook the nation.) Maybe they had known even then that their trysts would not last forever.
1. Despite the love they eventually felt, lived, even breathed for other people, the promise never became a lie.