No promises on length.

[taennyn]

But hey. It's been a while since I did a sparks post, hasn't it. :)


Wild Roses:
ripple effect - Gideon; appears to be related to unexpected and unrefusable cargo 1

(interpret as liberally as you like) - early Crown Navy era, Ulysse and Lida

Putting one foot in front of another - Trickwood Unification, Ruadhan (appears to be in the period between arrangements and arguments [where Dón knows Ruadhan's into the woods but has no idea whatsoever exactly where he is], and when Ruadhan actually shows up in Hernén's demesnes and starts being his irritatingly noisy self all over the woods.)
figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann
A thin layer of ice on everything - Trickwood Unification, Ioann and Evescha
second verse, same as the first - Trickwood Unification, Ruadhan
swans - Trickwood Unification, Geoffrey, references unexpected and unrefusable cargo 2
"actually, that's their version of a friendly hello" - Trickwood Unification, unknown
bees in a glass jar - Some Kind of Love Song, 'Jack Gibson'
"I already gave you my decision" - Trickwood Unification, Jared and Hernén

=DDDD - Jonathan Sabaey and his Sense of Impending Doom

that godsdamned ticking - Alternate Earths, Yasha

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Witches' Horses:
"Don't write THAT down" - Sibir, Stas
loss of vision/sight - Sibir, Nadya
passing the bottle around the campfire - Sibir, Nadya
working on 72 hours without sleep - Sibir, Nadya

Blue glass - Chevalier de Grammont, Grammont and Sinclair

Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina
no really it will fit - Falcons' Feathers, Khenbish

The kind of soup one can only get at home - Swallow's Tale, Taarstad
"what's the fuzzball chewing on now?" - Swallow's Tale, Helena and Sascha

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Deaths:
sparkling like water - The Morrigan
Clock tower - Julian De'Ath
Booby trap(s) - The Morrigan
insufficient resources - Deaths, Julian and Eduard De'Ath

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The Mummy Series:
the gravitational pull of bed - Mummy postscript, Evie Carnahan
"what is my life what are my choices" - Rick O'Connell
pie - Evie Carnahan and Rick O'Connell
"Why am I juggling magicians?" - Evie Carnahan, Rick O'Connell, Jonathan Carnahan

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Other:
OH GODS FINALLY - Unknown
tumbleweeds - Unknown

Comments

Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[taennyn]

It was the biggest piece of amber Irina had ever seen, crazed through with cracks and seams from long ago tumbles, and it was very clear that nobody had ever so much as tapped it with a padded stylus. It would have shattered immediately.

She was going to throw it at his head when she saw him next. She didn't know where it had come from, or what he intended by stashing it where her repair tools normally hid in her horse's neck--actually, they were still there, tucked further back, but the case was visible in distorted warped reflections through the fossilised sap--but she absolutely could not let anyone else find it in her horse. Moreso than her tools, moreso than her repaired boots, because she could pretend the stablehands had been indulging her with those, but a piece of untapped amber the size of her two fists put together would need explaining.

And she had no lie for that.

Re: Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[recessional]

I feel like I should have context for why it's PARTICULARLY egregious (and why the solution isn't just to shatter it/throw it away/whatever), but I cannot recall.

Re: Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[taennyn]

It's worth more money than she's comfortable disappearing, essentially; it's also fragile, which is a little stressful, especially if it's technically someone else's. His tendency to hide things in her spaces is Very Irritating.

Re: Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[zero_pixel_count]

Worth a lot even flawed as it is, then?

Re: Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[taennyn]

Veeeeery much so. The fact that it's so flawed but still whole could actually drive the value up.

Re: Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina

[klgaffney]

Oh ffs. Sounds damned pretty, though. Throwing it at his head would probably only encourage him to hide stuff from her on her own horse more creatively, tho.