Prosy: Dream House

Title: Dream House
Word count: 687 (incomplete total: 2,919)
Rating: G (possibly higher eventually...)
Prompt: anke's: Why was a statue deliberately walled in an alcove or room in an old cellar?
Notes: Partly inspired by aldersprig's fixer-upper fun ;)


It was their dream house.

Or at least it would be, when they were done with it.( Read more... )

Prosy: Cold Date

Title: Cold Date
Word count: 1,208
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: aldersprig's: Creepy: as per Lion, Witch, Wardrobe, being turned into a statue
Notes: Apparently the secondary theme of this Garden of Prose is "meeting faerie lovers at Chatoyant College in the winter with disastrous consequences," though I suppose if I hadn't already established that Vertiline meets Marlin in the winter I would have done this one differently. This felt a bit like cheating because I have already established the presence of people turned into statues at Chatoyant College, but I hadn't written this part of the story before!

This is a direct sequel to Fire, Earth, and Water, a bonus story that shows more of the magical system used at Chatoyant College.


Vertiline swung on her cloak and walked out into the cold air. She shivered instantly, despite the warmth of her fur-lined cloak. It must have been too cold for snow—the sky was full of glittering stars, and other than that, it was deeply dark. The moon was either dark or not up. She wished she’d borrowed a candle from Professor Lal to light her way, but before she could change her mind and go back in, her date appeared.( Read more... )