defies_gravity (defies_gravity) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-06-22 00:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, elphaba thropp, luthien tinuviel |
Who: Elphaba and Luthien
What: Frolicking in the woods
Where: Some woods away from people
When: Mid-June
Rating: Low
Status: Complete
Elphaba had been curious when Luthien said she just had the urge to go to the woods. After suggesting they take a picnic, she’d agreed to head off into the woods with her wife. She’d asked Elsa to look after the kids for a few hours while they went out this afternoon and now they found themselves in a clearing in the woods far from anyone.
“So here we are, communing with nature,” she smiled, laying out a blanket for them to sit on and putting the basket down on top of it. “Feeling better?” she smiled at her wife as she straightened up and reached a hand out to her.
“Much.” Luthien had her eyes closed, her head tilted up to the heavens. She’d removed her shoes, preferring the feel of the earth beneath her toes. Inhaling deeply, she felt calm, and centered.
The sky was clear and blue, and she hoped they stayed long enough to see the stars. Luthien missed the night sky without the lights of the city to pollute the view.
She took Elphaba’s hand and let her lead her to the blanket.
Elphaba did love seeing Luthien in nature. It just seemed to make her...glow. Pulling her wife in front of her, she kissed her gently and pushed a wave of hair back from her face. “You’re really happy here, aren’t you?” she asked somewhat rhetorically. “What is it about it? What does it make you feel?” she sat down on the blanket and gently pulled Luthien to sit next to her.
While her glow would never match that of someone who’d come from the Undying Lands of her dreams, Luthien had always had a bit of glow under the moonlight. She leaned her face against Elphaba’s hand, her grey eyes fluttering closed before she was pulled down.
“I feel connected, to the long ago and all that is far away. A city dulls the music of the Earth, but out here I can almost feel it. I can remember what it was like to dance in the moonlight between the trees.”
“Hmm, you had such a beautiful, enchanted life,” Elphaba smiled indulgently at Luthien. It was nice to have this time alone with her to just be free. As mush as she loved the kids she would be eternally grateful to her friends who looked after them when they just needed some time away. “You'll have to show me how you danced beneath the stars after dinner,” she grinned, opening the basket up and laying out some food. “I meant to ask, because I don't think I ever have, but are solstice and equinox special to you too?” she asked curiously.
Luthien laughed, the sound ringing like crystal music. “I have, despite the long stretches of darkness. I know that I have had a good life. And that this life too is good.”
She wanted to take Elphaba’s hands and hold them forever, but they really did need to eat. “They are. Not holy days, not in the modern sense, but still special. The holy days of my father’s people were different times of the year.”
Elphaba smiled as Luthien spoke about their life and returned to removing food from the basket. “Did you want to honour those days?” she asked. “I really should have asked before, I’m sorry I just didn’t think,” she shook her head.
“No, it’s all right. I still remember them, but I’ve no desire to celebrate them. Though the solstices were always important. Perhaps it would help them not become forgotten…” She shook her head. “But I don’t think it is as important as new memories.”
“Well, family is all about making new traditions and memories, so if you’d like to do something...create new traditions then we should,” Elphaba suggested with an amiable shrug. “My family wasn’t that big on them, at least, none that I particularly want to perpetuate anyway,” she told her.
“I like to think we’ve already started.” Luthien leaned against Elphaba, feeling suddenly touchy. “Bit by bit little by little. Making our own song together.”
She stilled completely and made a shushing sound. “Look, a deer.”
Elphaba leaned her head against Luthien’s, looking up at the deer when he wife pointed it out. She paused to watch the creature graze for a minute before speaking. “You’re right, we really need to get out of the city more often,” she murmured before slowly turning and pressing a soft kiss to Luthien’s head.
Luthien smiled, watching the deer. “If we are quiet enough, perhaps it will be joined by others, or come closer.” A Disney moment for a princess and a witch.
After watching for a few moments, Elphaba couldn’t help but smile and remark quietly: “You realise this would normally be the point where Mae would start screaming her little lungs out and scare the deer shitless.”
“Shhh,” Luthien whispered, wrapping herself around Elphaba. Oh, she loved her daughter, but her daughter was a baby and babies were loud. Still, she thought she might have a good singing voice, eventually. “Let us enjoy the silence, for once.”