Lerida stood outside the estate with a suitcase in hand, beaten and a faded orange. Her eyes were tilted to view the large building and the prairies that grew around and away into the endless blue sky horizon. She felt a growing, heavy feeling in her heart being here, alone, with the wind lapping at her skirts and tossing her hair about her face. There was the slightest feeling of being the strings to a violin, or a guitar, being plucked to the minor, in E, a sad shudder that ran throughout her frame.
She had not presented herself out of the haze of an unusually warm day under a dead, leafless tree to reassert their affair or stir the pot. She missed Mish, and wanted some lessons on that gun she had bought. Her interlude with Guthorm had provoked her, given her a sense of her place still in this strange tale of the missing Seer, small Viki, somewhere. It reminded her that she was still a key to pick at some lock in a pocket of night.
She headed for the door, intent on staying a couple nights, heedless of Mrs Mish'Cael's thoughts.
Up the stairs and to the door, rat a tat tat. She stood windblown and covered in amber coloured shadows, head to toe, as the sunset began to spread its sinking light and lengthy shadows across the estate itself to reach the back of her heels.
She had not presented herself out of the haze of an unusually warm day under a dead, leafless tree to reassert their affair or stir the pot. She missed Mish, and wanted some lessons on that gun she had bought. Her interlude with Guthorm had provoked her, given her a sense of her place still in this strange tale of the missing Seer, small Viki, somewhere. It reminded her that she was still a key to pick at some lock in a pocket of night.
She headed for the door, intent on staying a couple nights, heedless of Mrs Mish'Cael's thoughts.
Up the stairs and to the door, rat a tat tat. She stood windblown and covered in amber coloured shadows, head to toe, as the sunset began to spread its sinking light and lengthy shadows across the estate itself to reach the back of her heels.