knew what they had to do;

[crossfortune]

Name: Mischa
Story: tales from the drowned world
Colors: white opal (living inside one's own mind), atomic tangerine (civilization), halloween orange (There’s no way to run or hide when the thing you fear’s inside.)
Supplies and Styles: none
Word Count: 877
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None, I think?
Summary: In a court on the verge of civil war, two women have very different ways of fighting - or staying safe.
Notes: Short character study pieces.


( i must become )

angels lend me your might;

[crossfortune]

Name: Mischa
Story: tales from the drowned world
Colors: dove grey (Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed), halloween orange (The past is a road where the bus doesn't run, and there's no station called "Yesterday."), white opal (solitude)
Supplies and Styles: seed beads
Word Count: 1019
Rating: PG-13.
Warnings: Implied loss of an unborn baby. All the implied murder that goes with court intrigue. Implied depression (observed in someone else by the narrator). Dying narrator.
Summary: Angels lend me your might/forfeit all my lives to get just one right. Old, sick women are always tired, but Sana, the Shining Empress, does not have the luxury of being tired, because until the day she dies she has a world to hold together.


( forfeit all my lives/to get just one right )