#arbore-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!

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.

That is how I refer to the MC when I think about them as it is their surname. It isn’t brought up much but it is in the very beginning.

I do realize now that I typically just respond with MC because that is what is in the ask.

If you had to pick a song for every RO, which ones would you pick?

And is there one for MC, too?

Amber: Which Witch - Florence + The Machine

Alecto: Bloom - The Paper Kites

Alvise: Broken Crown - Mumford and Sons

Caius: Notre Dame - Paris Paloma