FIVE FICS

Five original ficlets, all written for prompts at 31_days
All either G or PG, though see individual warnings.


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Theme: 'In any case, try many things'
Rating/Warnings: PG: mention of violence. Random era-mashing.

GREEN GLASS BEAD


The girl followed her lover up the hillside, walking behind him up the narrow goat-path, across root-tight earth made crumbly by summer. Around them close mats of heather stretched out across the sway of the land. Ravens flew above them, one at each end of the sky.

She should have been weaving wool and he should have been weaving willow, but the older men were all out on an encounter and the village was bright and dizzy with the smell of herbs, laid out to dry in bunches on the lower roofs. The wives were busy and it was no weather to stay and make blankets or fences. So she followed him out through the trees, tall and humming with heat spirits as the morning lifted the dew off the ground in a great sheet, filming the ferns and moss of the valley floor with wet and furring her skirts with moisture, and up and out into the great roll of hills that made a pathway and a promise from the land to the sea.

We’ll show you what we’ve got.

( green glass bead )