chikaidestroyer: (Dead inside)
Albert Silverberg ([personal profile] chikaidestroyer) wrote2011-03-06 07:30 pm

∞ 92: Warming weather [action]

[He didn't send out an announcement of any kind when they returned home. Others had already announced their dead and offered any words of encouragement or frustration.

Instead, Albert spent the days following the draft ... working on his flower beds. March had brought with it a warm spell, meaning that his seeds would be germinating and eventually sprouting. This is also the time for pulling down the dried vines from his trellises.

It's a lot of work (and a lot of garden), so he'll be out and around the house until late in the day. It's as dusk approaches that he can be found sitting on the porch, watching three tiny owls perched on the porch fencing.]


...Welcome back.
wise_maiden: (looking for the truth behind those eyes)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-21 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
He had... very enthusiastic friends. I wouldn't be surprised if they put him up to it, at least for that once.
wise_maiden: (you think you're in your darkest hour)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-22 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
... Indeed. [She sips at her water.]

Afterward it turned to more... quiet exchanges. I suppose he had made his point.
wise_maiden: (the sky is a hazy shade of winter)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-22 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Even if I thought celebrating it was a bit needless, it was something he wanted to do for me. Especially since he hadn't had the chance to do so before. What use would there have been in denying him that?
wise_maiden: (and thunder shakes the walls)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Accepting the kindness of others can be as important as giving it. Even if the act of accepting is where the difficulty is. [Although she's not entirely sure if they're talking about the same situation anymore.]
wise_maiden: (build a casket for my tears)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Is that the impression that you were given by my words?
wise_maiden: (by the hallways in this tiny room)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
No, you don't. But instead of asking, you decided to branch into hypotheticals instead. Why?
wise_maiden: (there's always a way)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
You have not. [She picks up her roll of bread.] Most people don't. Yet you know more about me than others might.
wise_maiden: (and i will always miss you)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Strangers. You use that word often, in reference to this arrangement.
wise_maiden: (oh how the years go by)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Not that we speak of it often, but I suppose it stuck to my mind. Mostly because I can't honestly ever remember you using the word friend in that context.
wise_maiden: (the space between)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...? Then what terms do you make use of?
wise_maiden: (thought i'd never find the words)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-23 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Acquaintances. [She's quiet for a moment.]

If you don't make use of the term, is it because you've ... never had reason to, before? Or never a desire to?
wise_maiden: (it won't let me in)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-24 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Similar to family, in that sense. [But then she considers the little she does know about his family. Bred to fight wars, even against one another.]

Can you say that's true of our situation here?
wise_maiden: (build a casket for my tears)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2011-03-24 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
At home your role is your profession. Here it's a little different, isn't it?

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