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Post by mistrali on Sept 26, 2020 15:19:38 GMT 10
Title: Bookworm Rating: G Prompt: Addiction #3 Summary: A royal guard remembers the Queen is human after all.
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Another bookshop? wondered Wayan, as she watched Queen Dovasary disappear into Edgecliff’s, on the arm of Princess Lianne of Tortall. Both of them had worn identical dreamy expressions all the way to town.
Life in the Queen’s Guard kept Wayan busy now, but in her days as a message runner for General Dodeka, Black God keep him, she’d been there countless times. The sight of books stacked floor to ceiling had always made her a bit dizzy.
How many maps and histories do two people need? If it was my seventeenth birthday I’d rather a new robe. Or a nice dagger. Odd, to think that even sensible Queen Dovasary had her vices.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Oct 14, 2020 2:13:51 GMT 10
mistrali, I love that you explored the concept of addiction to books (because it is totally relatable to me, haha), and I love the detail of the books being stacked from floor to ceiling since it is such a bookworm trait to build those stacks of books. Nice to see something focused on Dove's addiction to books.
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Post by mistrali on Oct 14, 2020 3:29:25 GMT 10
devilinthedetails Thanks! Dove is one of my favourite characters and it’s fun to write her with an outsider POV due to her royal status. Here floor to ceiling means high shelves - Wayan sees those and her eyes glaze over haha. But Edgecliff would also totally have artsy book stacks.
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