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Colour of the Day (16/7/2024) [Starfall]
Name: Shadows on the Glass
Story: Starfall
Colors: Colour of the Day - 16th July 2024 (Sibylline)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 822
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno. Brief scene, following on immediately from Dance With Me.
Summary: Viyony encounters a ghost.
Viyony stepped down out of the cloakroom into the corridor, her light grey coat folded over her arms. The attendant seemed to know Leion, and the two of them were still talking about names that meant nothing to Viyony.
The corridor was empty and half in shadow, the noise from the party-goers in the main hall reduced to a distant murmur. Viyony craned her head back towards the cloakroom, tapping her foot against the wall. "Leion, I thought you wanted to leave!"
"What are you doing with him?"
She started violently, and swung round. A figure, only a few rods away, moved in the gloom. Viyony edged further out into the corridor to get a proper view of him, but he remained cloaked by the shadows and somehow blurred at the edges, as if there were a distorted glass wall between them.
"That isn't your business." She raised her head. Her heart beat louder.
He came nearer, looking down at her. He grew sharper, clearer—a man in his thirties, with curling dark hair, brown eyes, tan-coloured skin and a velvet jacket in dark scarlet. There was something familiar about his looks and the way he turned his head, although Viyony was sure she'd never seen him before. A cool draught out of nowhere tugged at her white skirt and ruffled her hair.
The stranger grinned. "Oh, but it might be. Whatever, you really shouldn't bother with Valerno. Take it from me."
"How dare you?" said Viyony, bristling. "I shall be friends with whoever I choose!"
The conversation was one she'd had before, and it sparked off something in her mind. Viyony moved forward, facing the interloper, scanning his face. He seemed to blur and grey before her eyes. "Who are you?" she whispered, and, then, with more force, "Come on—explain yourself!"
"What has that wall ever done to you?"
Viyony stopped. She rotated slowly around to see Leion emerging from the cloakroom. He tilted his head, awaiting an explanation.
"I wasn't talking to the wall," she said. "There was someone there." She stared down the corridor. It was empty; not even a door swinging or the echo of footsteps to prove she wasn't imagining things. She frowned, and tore down to where he'd been standing. She pushed at the double doors immediately beyond that, but they wouldn't budge.
"There was! I saw him." And, she thought with a shiver, he looked like Kadia. Kadia Barra, who had a brother she'd never met, but heard about too many times already—Atino.
Leion followed Viyony partway along, shrugging on his coat as he walked. "You were talking to yourself when I found you." He gestured around the vacant hallway. "Evidently."
Viyony swallowed her protests, unsure what to make of it herself. She let him lead her back to the main entrance and then out into Chamber Square, still strung out with flowers.
"Your coat," he said patiently, and then, when she gave him a blank look, lifted it gently out of her arms and held it up for her to slip into. "A vision?" he asked, more quietly.
She shook her head. "I dream dreams. I don't see visions."
"Well, nobody was there, I promise you."
Viyony swallowed. "He did look—unclear—like a reflection—something seen through a window, perhaps, but only when he was further away."
"Maybe that was it—you someone through the glass of the doors."
She shook her head. "No. He stood right in front of me at one point—nearly as close as you are now."
"And what did he say that annoyed you so much?"
Viyony fell into step with Leion as they navigated the twisting path down the steep incline from Chamber Square to the rest of the city. "Not to waste my time with you."
"Oh?" said Leion, and Viyony didn't understand why his expression cleared and he gave one of his warmest smiles. "Not an apparition with taste, then. We shan't worry about him."
"You don't think I'm mad, do you?"
Leion shook his head. "I think you see things others don't, whether you like it or not."
"A ghost, then?"
He shrugged. "Stranger things have happened. I'll have to show you a book I found recently when we get back to my place. It's far weirder than you speaking to people who aren't there, and it's quite real. I have witnesses."
"I don't," said Viyony. "Apparently. Leion -"
He looked at her. "Yes?"
Her suspicion of the spectre's identity hovered on the edge of her tongue for a moment, before she shook her head. "Only—thank you for believing me. Most people wouldn't."
She could easily be mistaken, and Leion had history with Atino that he still hadn't explained to her, even after Kadia had attacked her over it. She'd have to find out from someone else first—if it hadn't been her imagination running wild.
She could ask Leion later.
Story: Starfall
Colors: Colour of the Day - 16th July 2024 (Sibylline)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 822
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno. Brief scene, following on immediately from Dance With Me.
Summary: Viyony encounters a ghost.
Viyony stepped down out of the cloakroom into the corridor, her light grey coat folded over her arms. The attendant seemed to know Leion, and the two of them were still talking about names that meant nothing to Viyony.
The corridor was empty and half in shadow, the noise from the party-goers in the main hall reduced to a distant murmur. Viyony craned her head back towards the cloakroom, tapping her foot against the wall. "Leion, I thought you wanted to leave!"
"What are you doing with him?"
She started violently, and swung round. A figure, only a few rods away, moved in the gloom. Viyony edged further out into the corridor to get a proper view of him, but he remained cloaked by the shadows and somehow blurred at the edges, as if there were a distorted glass wall between them.
"That isn't your business." She raised her head. Her heart beat louder.
He came nearer, looking down at her. He grew sharper, clearer—a man in his thirties, with curling dark hair, brown eyes, tan-coloured skin and a velvet jacket in dark scarlet. There was something familiar about his looks and the way he turned his head, although Viyony was sure she'd never seen him before. A cool draught out of nowhere tugged at her white skirt and ruffled her hair.
The stranger grinned. "Oh, but it might be. Whatever, you really shouldn't bother with Valerno. Take it from me."
"How dare you?" said Viyony, bristling. "I shall be friends with whoever I choose!"
The conversation was one she'd had before, and it sparked off something in her mind. Viyony moved forward, facing the interloper, scanning his face. He seemed to blur and grey before her eyes. "Who are you?" she whispered, and, then, with more force, "Come on—explain yourself!"
"What has that wall ever done to you?"
Viyony stopped. She rotated slowly around to see Leion emerging from the cloakroom. He tilted his head, awaiting an explanation.
"I wasn't talking to the wall," she said. "There was someone there." She stared down the corridor. It was empty; not even a door swinging or the echo of footsteps to prove she wasn't imagining things. She frowned, and tore down to where he'd been standing. She pushed at the double doors immediately beyond that, but they wouldn't budge.
"There was! I saw him." And, she thought with a shiver, he looked like Kadia. Kadia Barra, who had a brother she'd never met, but heard about too many times already—Atino.
Leion followed Viyony partway along, shrugging on his coat as he walked. "You were talking to yourself when I found you." He gestured around the vacant hallway. "Evidently."
Viyony swallowed her protests, unsure what to make of it herself. She let him lead her back to the main entrance and then out into Chamber Square, still strung out with flowers.
"Your coat," he said patiently, and then, when she gave him a blank look, lifted it gently out of her arms and held it up for her to slip into. "A vision?" he asked, more quietly.
She shook her head. "I dream dreams. I don't see visions."
"Well, nobody was there, I promise you."
Viyony swallowed. "He did look—unclear—like a reflection—something seen through a window, perhaps, but only when he was further away."
"Maybe that was it—you someone through the glass of the doors."
She shook her head. "No. He stood right in front of me at one point—nearly as close as you are now."
"And what did he say that annoyed you so much?"
Viyony fell into step with Leion as they navigated the twisting path down the steep incline from Chamber Square to the rest of the city. "Not to waste my time with you."
"Oh?" said Leion, and Viyony didn't understand why his expression cleared and he gave one of his warmest smiles. "Not an apparition with taste, then. We shan't worry about him."
"You don't think I'm mad, do you?"
Leion shook his head. "I think you see things others don't, whether you like it or not."
"A ghost, then?"
He shrugged. "Stranger things have happened. I'll have to show you a book I found recently when we get back to my place. It's far weirder than you speaking to people who aren't there, and it's quite real. I have witnesses."
"I don't," said Viyony. "Apparently. Leion -"
He looked at her. "Yes?"
Her suspicion of the spectre's identity hovered on the edge of her tongue for a moment, before she shook her head. "Only—thank you for believing me. Most people wouldn't."
She could easily be mistaken, and Leion had history with Atino that he still hadn't explained to her, even after Kadia had attacked her over it. She'd have to find out from someone else first—if it hadn't been her imagination running wild.
She could ask Leion later.
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Nice.
He grew sharper, clearer—a man in his thirties, with curling dark hair, brown eyes, tan-coloured skin and a velvet jacket in dark scarlet. There was something familiar about his looks and the way he turned his head, although Viyony was sure she'd never seen him before.
So is Atino played by anyone, or does he just look like whoever plays Kadia?
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So is Atino played by anyone, or does he just look like whoever plays Kadia?
It's the other way around - he's only appeared very briefly in typed up pieces, but he came first. And, no, he's just out of my head, and Kadia looks like him. :-)
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Fair enough! Is he one of the older pieces, then?
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Atino is in this one, which is one of the earliest Viyony/Leion pieces.
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Leion is very sensible! XD This was great!
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