#scriptober

So, I was thinking, I want to practice drawing a bit (I’m a complete noob with 0 skill at it) so I made a little promptlist.

in scriptober, I write a short thing between 500-1k words long every day! they come off various lists, because i’m just like that!

today’s prompt “can you feel this” comes from the fictober18 list! it’s for Aola and Bree, the starring characters of Runeless!

feel free to ask questions about the setting or characters!

The Celestial House was a blessing for some, a social excecution for others, or an unobtainable dream for the despaired. Leventas was of common birth; one that barely made ends meet, but they attended the Roaring Night as expected of everyone. The Roaring Night, one of the Days of Selection, that occured once in every 12 years, right after the year of the Pincher Parade and before the year of the Maiden's Treasure. Priests of House arrived in all settlements to oversee the ceremonies, no matter how big or small they were. The Roaring Night, despite the name, happened in midday. Every citizen was expected to participate but it wasn't enforced. Those who were Sworn in one of the other Celestials were exempted from attending.

The Priest that came to their little village was an old man of graying hair, with an obiously dyed hair tip in fire red. The Priest approaches and, surprisingly for his old age, lifts them up.

"The Lion has chosen you!" he exclaims at Leventas. "It demands your presence at the House, to properly receive your dues." he finishes the what Levantas imagines to be the customary greeting for the Chosen ones.

They don't realise until most of the people have gone back at their homes that the Priest had left them something.

A crest pin with the Sign of the Lion. This is his proof to be allowed inside the Capital and, most importantly, to the revered House of the Celestials.

The Celestial House had a library. Of course the Celestial House had one. It was, after all, a place for the believed to be Chosen. A library was kind of expected.

But this library wasn't what Leventes expected or imagined. The only library he had been before was when he was at school, and the school library was small, with the few shelves overflowing with books nobody was allowed to take outside the room. This one was the complete opposite. Large and spacious, with endless bookshelves that carried strange artefacts and books of all shapes and sizes. There's even one that resembles a harp, or maybe a lyre.

Their guide through the Lirbary is an Archer girl, petitte and full of energy, explaining to them about pretty much anything that came to mind. It was rather endearing.

She stops then, and points to a small table set between two large bookselves.

"See that table? If there's something you'd like to borrow, you pick it up and go there, then you can take it to your room and continue at your own space." she explains, helpful as she's always been so far.

It doesn't help ease his confusion though. Take a book? Outside the Library? It goes against all their experiences but they're, at the same time, excited at the prospect of taking a book to their rooms to read. "Thank you" they say, and then decides that there's no harm to get to know her better.

"I forgot to ask, what's your name?"

Scriptober – a drabble a day, every day, for the entire month of October. Patrons get to help pick the prompts and the characters used. starts October 1st.