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

figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[taennyn]

"Oh, they're back already." She sat up, stretched, debated standing up onto two feet and then did it, because Ioann was giving her that 'I can't believe you' look again.

"The wind's coming from the other direction," he said as she did, and she laughed at him.

"Can't you see them?" she jerked her chin towards the stirrings in the mist. "Not everything is about the nose, you know!"

He paused, arms at a weird angle, peering, then dropped his hands to his sides. "All right, yes, I suppose I can see them. But that doesn't mean I don't have a point."

She laced her fingers together, stretched her arms up overhead, circled her shoulders, her hips--she always forgot how nice it was to move her arms instead of her forelegs, when she'd been on four feet for a while--then scruffled her fingers through her hair, which badly needed rebraiding. (He'd do it as soon as they settled somewhere, especially if she stayed two-legged.) "Is your point that you need to spend more time in your nose instead of your head?"

He ran out his tongue at her, pink and jeering, never as long as it was when he was four legged, and she absently licked her canines to check she'd remembered to blunt them enough as he added "No, my point is that you say things your nose shouldn't be able to tell you and you're always right and it's really annoying."

"Useful, though," she agreed, and sat down cross-legged to watch the figures emerging from the mist.

"That'd be the really annoying part, yes," he grumbled, dropping down next to her and propping his forearms over his knees.

Re: figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[konsectatrix]

*griiiin* she's observant as hell, and he's just like '???'

I love the physicality you bring to the table with your writing.

Re: figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[recessional]

Really it almost seems like he spends too MUCH time in his nose - like in the loudest parts of his body-senses, which in a wolf is always going to be the nose - and not ENOUGH time back in the control room of his head, collating and considering data.

Re: figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[taennyn]

Ioann and Eveschka are proving really interesting, because while they're both wolves, they're both unusual examples. She spends a lot of her time on four legs, he spends a lot of his time on two, she's unusually good at deriving context from environmental cues (especially scent/air, to the point she startles other, older wolves) and he's a little bit crap at it. She figures it's because he thinks about stuff too hard. (He figures she only ducked pack witch duty by dint of the horse-lords and the opportunity to leave home because seriously eveschka what even.)

(They're also from different packs and didn't grow up together.)

Re: figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[zero_pixel_count]

They're kind of fun, I don't think I've seen them before?

Re: figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann

[taennyn]

They've been technically present in several of the most recent Trickwood Unification pieces, especially the longer ones on the rhymed journal, but haven't spoken until now. They are kind of fun, aren't they. =)