blood upon the snow.

"as I've often noticed... I know someone who would likely do the very same were he to find himself here." the thought makes him laugh ever so slightly, along with a smile. "is that so? perhaps you might call upon me if you happen to find one, unless you wouldn't mind leading the way? so long as you do not have any plans when the time comes."

"As much of a gilded cage this city is, I will admit that it holds enough to let one experience the mundane." perhaps the nicest way she could put it, given all that's been experienced. " I know of a place, having required their business when the season began to turn." as fluffy as her dog might be, she still wished to get her a sweater. " Would you prefer I show you now or shall we plan in advance?"

⠀⠀⠀❛ ⠀They know how to kill all the tension, don't they ?⠀ ❜⠀AELIN ⠀doesn't even need to have read it already. Looking at the spine, getting a glimpse of the cover art, that gives her a good enough idea. ⠀❛ ⠀I want scandal, not... grease dripping off the page. A good steamy scene truly is an art form.⠀ ❜⠀

" Grease dripping off the page seems to be even too kind of an insult for this." forget reading or writing better, she could think of something far more substantial than this.....hot mess, as most used nowadays. " Had I wanted to read something using every metaphor under the sun, I'd look for a poet with a head too big for their shoulders. "

"I'm sure the young ones will enjoy this particular weather... but it is quite cold, even the finch refuses to come out of hiding." oh how he misses the warmer temperatures at times like these, he can already feel the chill biting.

" Their energy seems to be limitless. Though they'll fall asleep for hours the moment they find somewhere warm." her younger sister was already up and outside with the dogs before Morgan had even considered getting out of bed. " You should consider buying something for the finch. I'm sure someone in this city makes clothes for birds."

@emptyrule

she expected a crowd up on the rooftops, maybe a group or two mingling and having their own small party but there was only one person. rather friendly, he seemed, and she angles her head downwards in a wordless thanks. " I'm surprised there's not more people up here. I suppose the allure of alcohol and sweets is enough to keep them inside."

❝ You know, when you're getting kidnapped, usually there's someone physically there doing it for you to stab. ❞

" You'll never meet the Stars face to face so unfortunately, any stabbing will have to be set aside for a different method."

“Every day.” she does not need to elaborate, neither of them need to see more through it. “You missed the fireworks.”

" There will always be fireworks. Humanity can't go a holiday without the use of them. " and next time, next time she will watch them. "Did you enjoy them? It would have been a missed oppurtunity if you didn't. "

@emptyrule : s.c.

she speaks as calmly as ever, voice never raising nor holding a certain inflection to indicate anything else. "Or did I choose the wrong person to make that pact with?"

⠀⠀⠀⠀"What the— if you're talkin' about back then, of course I didn't gloat like an idiot! And clearly no one's cryin' about a falling moon right now, so not my problem."

" I was referring to now, not back then. It seems your hearing skills are rusty and no they are not yet but going about a moon falling could cause problems."

⠀⠀⠀⠀"Hey— I was talkin' from experience here! You'd be surprised to know what sorta folks actually think the damn moon would fall from the sky."

" And rather than try to console them into believing such would never happen, you instead choose to.....gloat?"

⠀⠀⠀⠀"Well... could be worse. Least the moon's not fallin'— some folks got a fear of that, ya know. They'd drop dead from fright before that rock even hit us."

".......don't quite your day job."