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A place for my random writing sketches and warmups.

Little Twisted Thing

July 19, 2022November 7, 2022 Ellie

The next day he returned prepared. He had some dried fish and a rind of cheese. “I brought you some food.” He beckoned the creature forward with the smelly morsel of fish. It hunkered down stubbornly.

“I’ll right then, I’ll eat it.” He lowered his bulky body down onto the bank, easing it awkwardly into the long grass. The day was warm but dampness persevered in the lower layers of the foliage, making the whole experience just a bit sticky and unpleasant. The man casually took a nibble of the fish before tossing the rest of the chunk into the entranceway of the barrow.

“Ya know, I never knew my parents. I was raised on my own in a little shack on the edge of my village. People brought me food and extra clothes and when I was big enough I learned how to grow, and hunt and make my own things.” He stopped for a moment and weighed his next comment carefully. “I didn’t have parents because when I was just a little thing I walked out of the woods. They say my mother was a witch and that I was sent away for being a boy and unable to learn the old magic. I think your mother might be one too. Maybe we have that in common.”

The creature did not answer. Perhaps it did not know how to speak. After a few moments, a tiny blackened hand stretched tentatively out from under the pile of old stones. It picked up the bit of fish and secreted it away into dark.

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The Thousand Flower Queen

July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 Ellie

The Thousand Flower Throne loomed on the dais. The throne, though rendered in gold and fine enamels by masters of a bygone age, was not as striking as the dainty figure propped upon it. Sitting in her own personal storm cloud of black silk was an austere-looking, scrub-rose-faced woman. A scrub rose that had earned its place in this garden not by the merit of its particular splendor but on the cunning of its thorns. This rose queen with her tenacious tendrils and piecing gaze cast her eyes down from her high garden perch to me.

“Well, captain?” Her voice was like pruning shears. Precise and ruthless. “What have you learned of our visitor?”

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The man with the sandwich

July 16, 2022July 17, 2022 Ellie

The cat squinted in irritation. The man had quite rudely invaded its alley. He had not even offered a bit of the sandwich he was gnawing on. It was a rather good-smelling sandwich too with some sort of fish spread on a hot loaf. The cat gave a disgruntled hrmph before beginning a half-hearted bath hoping the man would notice and toss him a tidbit. The man did not in fact notice the cat. He was too busy gazing across the busy market, watching a monstrous man draped in a boar skin haggle over some bangles.

Posted in On The Claret Sea, Seaside SketchesTagged City of a Thousand Flowers, Matduk, Sulaiman

Tempest

July 16, 2022July 17, 2022 Ellie

The sea was a wine-dark expanse, churning and gnawing. It mirrored her own tempestuous thoughts. Her normally immaculate tunic showed the damage of a day’s distress. Bits of firey hair escaped from the previously intricately sewen bird’s nest that crowned her head. The flyaway bits clung to her sweat-coated brow and neck. The southern winds were blowing but provided no relief from the smothering heat, just a fine dust that clung to everything making the world drab and gritty. It was summer and her thoughts churned dark and terrible like the sea before her. It was summer and revolution was imminent.

Posted in On The Claret Sea, Seaside SketchesTagged City of a Thousand Flowers, Knyaginya Inarasha

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