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

insufficient resources - Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'Ath

[taennyn]

"You know, I never thought I'd say this, but we don't have enough weapons for this."

Her uncle paused with his coffee cup halfway between table and mouth. "We what now?"

"Remember how we've been insisting she break or bury most of what she takes so our baggage train isn't entirely live steel?"

"Yes." He put the cup down, stood up and came over to peer over her shoulder.

"We don't have enough swords to fake our signatures right now." She leaned back, eyed him up and down. "Well. Maybe we can fake me and two or three of the Weylands, because I still pass as one of our cousins if nobody's looking closely. But Ricard took point last week and he's still a little glowy around the eyes, you took that council head's head clean off her shoulders when she tried to dart you from behind, the First doesn't pass as anything less than a guard-captain right now, and, well." She held her hand over a hatchet, which obligingly pulsed at them both. "Pretty sure she hasn't touched this trunk since she packed it."

"Hm." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Let me think about this."

Re: insufficient resources - Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'Ath

[zero_pixel_count]

I don't remember what this means, to fake their signatures?

Re: insufficient resources - Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'Ath

[taennyn]

I'm pretty sure it's new, so no apologies needed. I think what's going on is that if you pile up enough death-aligned metal together, it can appear to be a human death if you're operating by sense-of-other-deaths (so 'in that building, upstairs' as opposed to visual confirmation), and they're trying to rig decoys/bait. But are having problems finding enough appropriate metal to actually build decoys for people's expectations of their group's power presentation when at home/not actively fighting or trying to hide.

Re: insufficient resources - Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'Ath

[goshawk]

I get the feeling there's also a bit of ironic amusement in them not having enough weaponry for something.