the_seafarer: (always winter never Christmas)
Caspian X ([personal profile] the_seafarer) wrote2022-01-10 06:08 pm

[au] an early snow

It's only mid-autumn, as the Bar-year reckons, but one morning Caspian wakes early to find that the light coming through his window has that particular muted quality to it that only comes from sifting through clouds and a veil of snow.

And snow it is indeed, when he comes outside: it crunches pleasantly beneath his boots as his breath freezes in the air and his cheeks turn pink with the cold. Snow; and still it falls, silent and light.

He heads to the stables with the intention of finishing his chores quickly so he can let the horses out to frolic in it, whistling as he goes.
sai_delgado: (outside with hands linked)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-14 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
She touches it lightly with her fingertips and lets it stay.

“What’s yer favorite time of year?” she asks, as they walk paths that wind through green grass and just-budding trees and flowers.
sai_delgado: (on the drop)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-14 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan laughs. “For riding on the Drop, too,” she tells him. “Which is why it were always my favorite.”
sai_delgado: (playful in blue and gold)

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“I’m sure it’ll be wonderful,” she tells him, and oh, her certainty is clear. “Since thee love it so.”
sai_delgado: (playful in blue and gold)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Remembering their first visit, she chooses one from his hand and holds it to his lips, mischief in her gaze.
sai_delgado: (playful in blue and gold)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
She colors a little, but her gaze is fond. “Thee has a way with words,” she observes. “And teasing, too.”
sai_delgado: (playful in blue and gold)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
She opens her lips to accept the berry, kissing his fingers as he’d kissed hers, filled with a fizzing, bubbly feeling at the playfulness between them.
sai_delgado: (Default)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
“Aye,” she says, after a moment to listen. Susan eats another berry and offers him one.

“It’d have to be so cold to freeze, wouldn’t it hurt the plants?”
sai_delgado: (horses)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
She shakes her head, marveling at it.

“Winter were never so in Mejis,” she tells him. “Oh, the leaves fell, aye, and things were brown, and cool, but nothing like this.”
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sai_delgado: (brown leather jacket)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
“I like the warmth, but I’ve not ever heard good things of a desert.” She follows with a will, shading her eyes with her hand to look out over the garden.
sai_delgado: (Default)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
“Mayhap,” she says, doubtfully. “It did awful things to Roland, though. But he were there for years.”
sai_delgado: (brown leather jacket)

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Susan makes a face. “I like the snow better.”
sai_delgado: (outside in sunlight with jacket)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-15 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
“I can’t imagine they’d care for it at all,” she agrees.

The rippling stream is closer now, and still spring-bedecked with flowers and green, green grass. Susan turns their steps toward the bank.
sai_delgado: (outside in sunlight with jacket)

[personal profile] sai_delgado 2022-01-16 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
She’s quiet, walking beside him, but not the quiet of someone unhappy or lost in thought - nay, Susan’s just content to be in the moment, say true.

A spray of violets draws her eye, and she crouches to brush light fingers over their petals.

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