WIP Wednesday <3
Anyone's free to tag me to their WIPs! ❤️
Worked on this gif for ~15 minutes at work today since a patient had cancelled their appointment. 😆
Waking up in the morning isn't quite as painful as it was in the beginning, but sadly I can't seem to stay awake after work, I keep falling asleep and sleeping until it's bed time?! I want to write more, but WHEN??
Anyway, here's two snippets, the first one is from A Song Without the Voice (296 words) and the second is from Rogue Waves (263 words).
CW: None
A Song Without the Voice (296 words):
The world beyond the cottage sat suspended in that strange hour before dawn fully claimed the sky. Darkness had faded, soft enough now that the shapes of the village stood clear beneath the early morning haze. Thin mist curled low along the ground near the riverbanks, drifting lazily between fences and cottages while the mountains beyond remained only dark silhouettes against the paling horizon. The air smelled of wet pine. Talisse drew the quilt tighter around herself automatically. The yard lay quiet around her. Near the steps, a shaggy dog lifted its head at the sound of the door opening, ears twitching lazily. It regarded her for a moment with sleepy disinterest, then huffed quietly and settled back down against the side of the house, apparently deciding she posed no threat worth barking at. The chickens remained tucked inside their little coop, feathers puffed, not yet awake enough to start their endless fussing. But the cow standing within the nearby fenced pen was already awake, large and placid beneath the pale dawn light. Its breath steamed softly in the air as it shifted its weight and regarded her with slow, sleepy eyes. Talisse approached the fence almost instinctively. She leaned against the wooden gate and reached through the rails, letting her fingers brush slowly along the cow’s neck. The animal huffed quietly and leaned into the touch with surprising gentleness. For a little while, she simply stood there. The village felt almost eerie at this hour. No hammering from the mill yet. No voices. No chopping wood or barking dogs or children running through the muddy roads. Only the distant rush of the river breaking the silence, steady and endless beneath the soft whisper of wind moving through the trees. After Helgen, it almost felt unnatural.
Rogue Waves (263 words):
He withdrew the small box from his robes, and the polished surface caught faint light between them, the lacquer gleaming briefly against the muted gold of his robes. Recognition crossed her face. “This is yours,” Ondolemar said, forcing the words out before his pride could interfere again. “I should not have taken it.” He extended the box toward her. For a moment Talisse simply stared at him. The expression on her face would have been easier to tolerate if she had looked angry again. Anger he understood, distrust he expected… But this was something closer to complete inability to process what she was hearing. Slowly, suspiciously, her eyes moved from the box to him and back again. “…You’re joking.” “I assure you,” Ondolemar replied dryly, “this experience has been profoundly humorless for me as well.” That finally seemed to break her paralysis and she stepped forward abruptly and snatched the box from his hand with enough force to make the hinges creak together. She turned it over once in her grip, checking it with quick, practiced scrutiny before opening one of the countless hidden pockets stitched into her armor. Ondolemar watched with faint disbelief as the box disappeared seamlessly into the leather layers like it had never existed at all. “Wonderful, now I have it back,” she muttered, already stepping sideways past him toward the stairs. A smile touched her mouth then—small, warm, almost pleasant at first glance. It never reached her eyes. Those remained fixed on him, flat with cold irritation beneath the shadow of her hood. “You can fuck off, now.”
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