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Lʟᴇᴡᴇʟʟʏɴ ɪs (sinfullydevious) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2019-03-21 12:44:00

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!log, !open, ~2019 march, ~40 points, ~~briar moss (livingtattoos), ~~llewellyn cornick (sinfullydevious)

Who: Llewellyn Cornick & Open
What: just reading
Where: the park
When: afternoon
Warnings: none?
Status: in progress, open

Llew was curled up on a bench, a book in her hand, happy to read with a thermos of tea. One leg was tucked up, her chin on her knee, thermos to the left and book in her right hand.

She lazily flipped the page, and reached for her thermos, took a drink, then looked around. Then she looked at the people around, smiling a bit. She commented after a moment as she saw someone looking around.

"The first day of spring. It is rather lovely."

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livingtattoos
2019-03-21 10:22 pm UTC (link)

It was finally looking like the seasons had changed and Briar had gone right outside with it. He'd never liked winter, though it wasn't like anything had ever changed in Sotat or like Summersea and Winding Circle had been harsh like it was here. He was glad it was over and it was nice enough to go outside again. He could feel the plants all waking up from their winter's rest and it filled him with energy.

The park was the only place he wanted to be, it was still too soon to start his own garden and he needed to be among plants.

Just walking around a little, taking things in, he paused and suddenly there was some woman nearby talking to him. Curiously, Briar looked in her direction. "It ain't the first day."

Not as he understood it, anyway. For him, spring had started days ago.

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sinfullydevious
2019-03-22 12:53 am UTC (link)

Llew lifted a brow, "Then when was it?" she tilted her head to the side, she had long ago given up with the real changing of the seasons, that had shifted over centuries and she was not sure it was the same as she remembered the current one.

She paused, "Apologies." she said after a moment, she had just spoken up and that was rude of her. She was trying to be more polite and less direct.

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livingtattoos
2019-03-22 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Briar cocked his head slightly, not understanding why she was apologizing. But he wasn't known to be very polite and preferred to be direct himself. If he wanted to know something, he asked, just like she had.

"Been comin' on for a couple weeks now. I'd say it felt like it changed 'bout four days ago." At the same time he felt like he wanted Tris to help him be sure. A weather witch would know it from that side the same way he knew it from the plants. He'd bet she'd say it had come even sooner, with the first warm winds.

He'd argue she was wrong and he remembered in times like this that he missed his foster sisters a lot.

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	sinfullydevious 2019-03-23 03:19 am UTC (link)
	Llew nodded a bit, then smiled a touch, closing her eyes to try to feel things. She might be an angel of death, fallen of course, but she knew life. She just hadn't paid attention. "Hmmm come to think of it, you're probably quite correct in that. Possibly earlier, even." She drank from her thermos, she was much better at ending life to allow for new growth. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

livingtattoos
2019-03-24 02:44 am UTC (link)

“Could be. Hard to say exactly.” Spring wasn’t something that just happened in a snap. Like every other season it faded in and out and Briar wasn’t a fan of trying to say it was a day difinitively. And he definitely wasn’t going to say it was the same one every year. The changing of the seasons couldn’t be predicted like that.

“You got some kind of Green magic?” That was how he felt things. He didn’t think anyone else here had it. Not that he was sure he’d know either way.

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	sinfullydevious 2019-03-24 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Llew smiled a little, "No, nothing like that. I was an Angel of Death - I know when things are alive and when they are dying." she said with a slow shrug. Why lie? No one cared here. She was what she was. "We created life then had to end it." she was better at ending, that is. She was muc better at that part. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

livingtattoos
2019-03-24 10:08 pm UTC (link)

Most people, Briar figured, would be put off by that. But he didn't much care. People called themselves what they wanted to be called, and at least what she said made some sort of sense. Nothing bothered him more than when people abused their power to force things to live longer than they should.

"Everything's gotta end," he said with a shrug. Plants died, people died, it was all the same to him and he'd seen it all. He'd had to cause both. Neither was easy and one left him more hurt than the other but it was what it was. "The Chammuri even got a god for that. Mohun."

Not a god he could subscribe to, he tended to pick and choose his gods, didn't subscribe to one group, but one that existed to the people there.

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sinfullydevious
2019-03-25 11:03 pm UTC (link)

Llew was pleased to not have someone freak out on her. It helped, a lot, to make her feel less awkward about it all. "It does. Cannot have new without ending of the old." she said evenly.

She smiled a little, "Life must go on. People, most people anyway, don't really like how that has to be." she shrugged though,

She, however, didn't feel bad about it. She had a job to do. She used to hate it all, but she'd understood the way it was, she'd left Heaven because it hurt to destroy everything she had to create, so while she understood it, and even subscribed to the logic, she had still been hurt at the start.

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livingtattoos
2019-03-28 03:59 am UTC (link)

"Most people don't know much of anythin'."

At least not when it came to how it felt to have something forced to live longer than it should. It was like a constant tug of too much and Briar hated that, especially when he couldn't do anything about it. It wasn't fair to the poor thing being kept alive, or being forced out of season.

There was a reason he disliked greenhouses, no matter how useful they could be.

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	sinfullydevious 2019-03-29 02:47 am UTC (link)
	"I think you are rather correct in that." She noted before she let the conversation lapse into silence once more. She drifted back to her book, but listened in case he wanted to add more. She got the feeling, though, he wasn't a big conversationalist. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

livingtattoos
2019-04-02 11:54 pm UTC (link)

Her assumption of him couldn't have been more correct. In fact, Briar was genuinely surprised that she didn't draw him into further conversation. Most folk around here did. Like they were going to fade away without small talk or something. It had never been something he enjoyed.

So he just paused for a second to process his surprise before continuing on his way.

[ooc: wrap!]

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