Prosy: East

Title: East
Word count: 305 (total: 705)
Rating: G
Prompt: kayim's: Crossroads
Notes: I ended this at what felt like a natural point (er, not that you can tell) but Sirna and Ayol's story is definitely not over, so I hope I'll write a sequel to it at some point. I hope nothing horrible happens to them.


It was hot. And Sirna was exhausted, even though she’d only woken up two hours ago. They weren’t sleeping well, because there was nowhere to sleep. And she couldn’t sleep too soundly, because she had to take care of her little sister, and there was no one else to help with that. There was only them.( Read more... )

Prosy: Interview

Title: Interview
Word count: 320 (unfinished total: 521)
Rating: G
Prompt: ariestess's: the left-hand path
Notes: Palua has previously appeared in Gathering Herbs, though this story is set about a year before that one.


Today Palua was fourteen years old. She had been educated in the convent, along with several of her siblings and other noble boys and girls from the west of Atash, for the last six years. Now her official education came to an end, and she would return home.

That is, if all did not go well.( Read more... )