#evergardenwall

minific ask game

P. While driving or in/around a car.

Riza grabbed the keys from the table, hooking her finger in the ring and twirling it around a couple of times. She locked her door behind her and walked down the stairs to the garage. She climbed in her car, breathing deeply before turning the ignition. The car rumbled to life, and Riza allowed the engine to warm for a few moments before shifting into reverse. After clearing her parking spot, she shifted into first, then second, and carefully navigated to the main street. She took off in the direction she had become so accustomed to, and rounded the corner she got used to rounding. She drove down the street, shifting up to fourth, then back down to second to take her next turn. The same folks were out walking, milling, socializing, that always were. Street merchants maybe switched spots on the sidewalk, but were all accounted for. Buildings were the same as ever, residents doing the same chores and activities. She completed her final turn, and pulled over in front of the same building she had stopped at every morning for weeks now. She opened her door and exited the vehicle, straightening her uniform and walking to the other side. She leaned on the car, feeling the rumbling from the engine echoing through the chassis and frame.

It wasn't too long until she heard a door open and close, and footsteps approaching the front door to the apartment. She stood up straight, not that the person she was picking up would blame her for wanting to allow herself the comfort of a slight lean, but she wanted to maintain her professional composure with the woman. The last door opened, and the inhabitant walked out. Riza saluted, "good morning, Colonel."

"You're early, Lieutenant." Roy responded, wrist threaded through the handle of her briefcase to allow her hands the freedom to finish zipping her coat. She pulled down at the hem to tighten it's fit, and stopped on the sidewalk where the Lieutenant parked.

"Are you ready, sir?" Riza asked, moving to open the rear door.

"Always am." The corners of Roy's mouth angled upwards, not enough to call it a smile but enough for Riza to notice. She opened the door, standing and gripping the handle to allow her superior to get into the vehicle safely.

really good so far! i havent made much progress this past 10 days lol

i started reading immediately following my many Conclave rewatches and i have a feeling there’s going to be a lot of common themes

(for the made up title ask game!)

HIIIII <3 hello hii !!!

The House of Voices

The flat in Venice was a decrepit old thing, and the city itself was a sinking ship, both literally and figuratively. Midway through the twenty-second century, the double whammy of a global recession and rising sea levels had driven tourists from its streets, so Nico reached the place well before he was expected.

Music floated out of the one-bedroom flat. He waited by the door as the radio--here, he couldn't help a fond smile--floated out hits from the early 2080s.

"Mom?" he said at a lull in the song. "Can I come in?"

Maria di Angelo floated out of the room serenely, still in the clothes she had died in. Her cold hand patted his cheek with easy familiarity. She stood almost a full head shorter than him now, something that had never seemed possible the last time she was alive, Nico still young enough to be clinging to her skirts. Her pale grey string of pearls glinted at her throat.

"I hear you're buying the house back," she said. Just as he started to smile at her, she said, "I don't think that's a good idea. Marco tells me things, when he visits. The seas are rising?"

OKAYYY so quite a Nico title, but I think instead of a sad canon-compliant post-tartarus fic like I'd originally been thinking of, I think this would work when as an AU where Nico is a lonely, but not entirely unhappy, god in the 22nd century (got turned after pjo, so nothing after hoo happen like it does) and is being gently haunted by his Mom in their super old Venice apartment. It would be more wacky and funny than tragic, and most of the plot would center on him finding another ghost while searching for a way to reunite Bianca and his mom......Hazel Levesque, who died in the Giant War and who Nico had glimpsed only briefly. Siblings!

thank you in advance and i hope you have a great day!