#amber-tf

Rules: you will be given a word. Then you share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

The word I was given was: FEAST

F - Feeling bold, you push Amber further back into the bed and shift so you are slightly above her. Leaning on an arm, you smile down at her, and she smiles back. This only lasts for a moment as you find your positions flipped. Amber leans down and presses a gentle kiss to your lips.

“Cute, we have a day to start, though.” She presses another kiss to your temple and moves from the bed.

E- Examining his body, you see a pendant that looks strange. You grab it and leave the room as a numbness starts to overtake you.

A - As you look out to the ridges, you notice that it has started to snow. A different version of you might have found something romantic in the snow as the sun sets, but currently you are just cold.

S - "Spirits and Souls bless this conversation, for I can't see a civil end," Alecto mutters under her breath.

T- The lights were so bright and everything hurt, blinking a few times to orient yourself with your surroundings. You look around the room and see the board.

F is from The Forest Chapter 5. E is from The Forest Chapter 4. A is from Cold Mountain Chapter 1. S is from The Forest Chapter 3. T is from Cold Mountain Prologue. Several sneak peaks for the holidays!

"You can thank me by surviving."

Amber is not one to be trifled with. Strong and willing to take on the world alone, she fully understands the choices that she makes. If you can manage to capture her heart, you'll have a wonderful thing indeed.

How would the Ro react?

Hi Anon!!! This one is cute.

Amber: She is watching as they come over, if/when MC gets their hands under her clothes, she immediately begins plotting to get even. Don't be surprised when she shoves her freezing feet into your nightclothes once you are settled into bed.

Alecto: She is pouting because she can't get even with her hands, or she might kill MC accidentally. She is, however, taking all the covers tonight. Enjoy being cold.

Alvise: He stiffens immediately. When he turns and realizes it's MC, he chuckles a bit. He always runs hot, so he wraps them in his arms until they are trying to escape, then he holds them a little longer because they started this.

Caius- It's fizzy and weird but it's sweet. He likes the bubbles in his mouth.

Alvise- No

Amber- No, but she doesn't mind ginger ale.

MC (Arbore): You are a triplet from a village where that isn't allowed. Thirdborns are a sin, and triplets are unheard of. Most thirdborn children are left to die in the forest or die quite young in accidents. You are a pariah in the community. You manage to survive until the maturity ceremony, and that is when everything goes wrong. You will leave the village with two people and meet others along the way. Those people are:

Amber: is a thirdborn and a healer. Her gift comes from her being trained in medicine, growing up in the village. She was allowed to be born because her sister was sickly and wasn't supposed to survive childhood, but when she did, her village tried to cast her out. The spirits, in turn, swallowed the village and turned it into a swamp. She remains in the village in the last standing house, the one where she did all her training.

Alvise: is a secondborn and has weapons training. He has no gifts and comes from a rather brutal village that he was cast out of after killing his father, the first elder of the village, not before being tortured and permanently disfigured by his older brother, who took the spot of first elder after his father's death. Some months after he was cast out, his entire village died off; no bodies were found, but all buildings were left standing. This village was by a large river and sits low because of this; Alvise can fish. (more to come)

Alecto: was a firstborn who left her village after many people fell ill due to her curse/power she is afraid to touch people. She is quiet, and her hands are always covered. She is from the neighboring Acacia village that your elders had tried to offer you to before your coming-of-age ceremony to avoid sending you off to die in the forest. They never heard back because the village had already died for sending her away.

I will only be doing one Valentines snippet per IF but I still wanted to do something since my plans fell through for what I wanted for this month. So best of luck to the winner❤️❤️❤️

Alvise

As if in your own world, you hum and dance around the room, placing decorations that you found tucked away in one of the far closest, Alvise shouldn’t mind… much. He said he enjoyed the winter festivities more than the spring. You hope he is happily surprised when he returns.

Your thoughts pause as you spot a wooden statuette in the chest.

A carved creature of some sort was the next pull from the chest, you turn it a few times trying to decipher what exactly you are holding. It was large and had several tails, not something you remember ever seeing in the forest.

“It’s the Wise Fox from the tale of the Great Hunter.” You hear the heavy thud of Alvise’s snow-covered boots as he enters the small room.

“Is that so? I don’t recall the fox having this many tails.” You murmur more to yourself, but it draws a snort from Alvise, nonetheless.

“For I am as all-knowing as the greatest of beings, held in confidence by those who breathed life into this world…” Alvise begins to recite.

Tracing a finger over the tails as you count them to yourself. “Didn’t the Wise Fox only have two tails? One for the Great Mother and the other for the Great Father?”

Amusement spreads across Alvise’s face. “Perhaps, I was only past my thirteenth summer when I made that for my mother. It was her favorite tale to tell.”

Taking the statuette, you place it in the center of the mantle. “A way to include her then. I’m sure she would be incredibly proud of the life you’ve built.”

There is softness on Alvise’s face as he moves closer to you. He doesn’t speak at first, choosing to take your hands in his instead. “She would have loved you.” His eye shines with emotion.

Leaning forward, you are met with a kiss.

Amber

The smell of herbs and berries filled your senses as you entered the kitchen. It reminded you of the long winter nights you spent with your family as a child. It reminded you of your mother and the songs you sang together…

“Are you going to hang around in the doorway or do you plan on joining me for a drink?” Amber questions playfully.

“I would never pass up a chance to share even a moment of your time.” You softly reply.

“Sweet-talker.” Amber chuckles as she pours you a cup.

You say nothing but smiles you take the cups she hands you. Taking a sip, you notice it is sweet, but has a slight bite.

“What brought this on?” You ask as you swirl your cup in your hands.

“When the nights would grow long, my mother would make this. Said it was to keep us healthy and happy, brought luck as the nights grew closer.” Amber said with a light sigh.

“Do you stand by that now? Are we lucky tonight?” You question. The last part with a wink.

She laughs deeply before taking another sip from her cup. “You’ll have to drink a little more if you’re hoping for luck.”

Horrible facts about each Ros

Hi Shadowkisschy!!!

Amber: She used to put small venomous bugs in the pockets of people who were mean to her as a child so that they would have to ask her for help at the healing hut.

Now she will work herself to the point it is negligent to her own health.

Alecto: Honestly has never done anything horrible on purpose everything has been due to her plague touch.

She is haunted by the past and find it hard to forgive herself for things that are out of her control.

Alvise: He enjoyed killing his father. He knows that it is wrong and he shouldn't have taken pleasure in it and that takes away from it, taints it even, but he feels justified in knowing all the wrong his father did. Even if it was for the spirits to judge and not him.

Currently he avoids his feeling by fighting. He doesn't like to process his feelings.

Caius: He has never done something that isn't self serving. He is an inherently selfish creature and has betrayed more people than he cares to remember.