( both the cat and the nug have a slightly disturbing tendency to ride on his enormous befurred back, so, you know.
gwenaëlle leaves it at that, until a short time later — about as long as it takes to wind all the way up from one of the garden courtyards up to the top of the central tower and then debate knocking on flint's door and then decide she's come this far and also that he might be annoyed about it which would be crushing in a way that she's ballasted against with byerly by presuming his general disinterest in the inner workings of her head in the first place.
she doesn't actually knock, because she's not mysteriously become polite in the past hour or two, but lets herself in; hardie first, because that's how he likes them to enter a room, and gwenaëlle a beat behind him, over her arm a black shirt with a needle jabbed through half-finished skull embroidered in also black on the back of it and in her hand her sewing basket. her skirts sway, pulled ahead by hardie's body, and she takes her reading glasses off— )
crystal to action.
( both the cat and the nug have a slightly disturbing tendency to ride on his enormous befurred back, so, you know.
gwenaëlle leaves it at that, until a short time later — about as long as it takes to wind all the way up from one of the garden courtyards up to the top of the central tower and then debate knocking on flint's door and then decide she's come this far and also that he might be annoyed about it which would be crushing in a way that she's ballasted against with byerly by presuming his general disinterest in the inner workings of her head in the first place.
she doesn't actually knock, because she's not mysteriously become polite in the past hour or two, but lets herself in; hardie first, because that's how he likes them to enter a room, and gwenaëlle a beat behind him, over her arm a black shirt with a needle jabbed through half-finished skull embroidered in also black on the back of it and in her hand her sewing basket. her skirts sway, pulled ahead by hardie's body, and she takes her reading glasses off— )
Thanks.