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Dec. 12th, 2025 01:21 pm
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Unfortunately for everyone, Susan Pevensie has discovered power tools.

After reading approximately twenty user guides, six instructional manuals, and every single warning label, she's brought sanders, drills, and saws - and a few other things - out to what was once a beachside restaurant. She is, of course, attending to all safety precautions, and is wearing coveralls and boots, a mask, and protective eye gear as she experiments with sanding down the surface of the bar and fabricating wall struts. It's not as easy as she was hoping it would be, even after the practice she and Lancelot had got last winter, taking construction lessons from Laertes and then building up the storage structures in Little John's old cave - but she's determined to master the necessary skills to fully renovate this space.

Fortunately, even though it's beastly hot, she's on a beach. When she gets overwarm, she can turn off all her power tools, remove her protective gear, and take a quick dip. Underneath the coveralls is a fetching bathing costume, the same blue as her eyes, and cut in a familiar (to her) fashion she tends to think of as hopelessly American.

FNAF SPOILERS POSSIBLE IN COMMENTS

Dec. 6th, 2025 05:02 pm
notmentioned: (smirk)
[personal profile] notmentioned posting in [community profile] dear_player
[he's just going to smirk but he's twitchy. His smile is bright and brittle.]

...you're wasting time with me?

[a flicker of some emotion that's unreadable
]





.

This is ...impossible. thank you but no. I'm needed.
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The hot summer continues, and so does Gaheris' boat project, under Laertes' capable guidance. When he's not doing that, he's studying with Senior Wei: boring, awful sword forms, but other things too, making talismans in Norn, bird observation (Wei Wuxian insists this is very important, and Gaheris is fully willing to go along with it), choosing a spiritual instrument (Gaheris picks a thumb harp), and looking for dead forest animals in case Wei Wuxian can manipulate their ghosts. When he's not doing that, he works on Gu Xiang's poem. And when he's not doing that, there are books: glorious, glorious books.

It's enough to make a person feel like they could be happy.

He does, admittedly, have bad dreams, but he's always had bad dreams. So when he wakes up one morning before even the sun, and wanders out into the gardens, it's with no greater unease than usual. He keeps thinking he sees a flat black eye like a seal's looking out from the greenery, but it's always a stone, and of course it always will be a stone, up here, and down by the shore too, which is too warm for gray seals he's used to. It's a reminder that in spite of all the wonders here it isn't home. He's not where he's meant to be, and eventually it's going to catch up to him.

His mother doesn't like it when her things are taken without her permission.

He picks a quiet spot to sit in with his notebook of draft poems, and watches the sun come up over the mansion.

Big weird lonely snake guy

Dec. 3rd, 2025 08:49 pm
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If there is even the slightest chance I may see my friends here, then I am most certainly "game," as the youths say!

Oh how I long to tell them all how terribly I've missed them. Heaven is quite lovely and all, but it's rather difficult to enjoy paradise without the ones you hold most dear.
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She...hasn't forgotten about me.

[ His voice is almost breathless, awed, as he plays the message over in his mind. Eyes flicker as he tries to hold onto every word, every sound. His mind lingers on her voice, a gentleness he's unused to... Her salutation...

'Dearest Albedo'...

Dearest... He scoffs.
]

What a thing to say...

[ And yet, he keeps repeating it over and over in his head. Dearest. Dearest. Dearest, dearest, dearest, dearestdearestdearestdearestdearest--

a shaky exhale as he closes his eyes. In spite of himself, his cheeks are flushed.
]

I...do truly need to think.

[ He's so unused to feeling, let alone this intensely. Returning to the comfort of his own analytical musings would be a welcome respite. ]
unsentguardian: (it all ends here.)
[personal profile] unsentguardian posting in [community profile] dear_player
Seems I still won't be getting any rest.

Fine. I'll see where this takes me.
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