Too Subtle // k!ah
Jan 19, 2015 19:31:06 GMT -5
Post by cosetty on Jan 19, 2015 19:31:06 GMT -5
In the eighth line of a poem--she sang,
She didn't sing, the sea sang, then stopped.
There was something off about the way her father looked this morning before going out to sea. Aelinor couldn’t tell you how he looked different, only that he did. He still had the same scar on one eyebrow; the same shadows across his face. He spoke with the same calming baritone that settled the world back on its axis. Visually, nothing was different, but somehow Aelinor’s stomach twisted ever so slightly when he walked out the door. Something was different, she just didn’t know what. Aelinor wasn't the best at decifering subtle facial cues. All had seemed normal this morning, just the same as every other day. She woke and made a bagged lunch for her boys, and pretended not to know her father could hear her singing under her breath from the next room. She handed over the bag, bid Father farewell, and off he went. Yet, this feeling in her stomach definitely wasn't normal. Am I ill?
She didn't particularily feel ill. Her eyes were clear and bright. She wasn't light-headed or feeling faint or having trouble breathing. There was only a new weight in her gut- strange and altogether unwelcome. Aelinor struggled to carry on with her normal chores. She kept getting distracted by reflected slants of light in shop windows, or the shrill cry of a gull overhead. It was hard to buy bread when her thoughts went to the boat every few minutes.
"Snap out of it, Aelinor!" she said to herself, growing frustrated with her pinballing anxieties. She needed to focus if she was to get anything done. Her father would return tonight, like always. She would make dinner for herself and her brother, like always. And everyone was going to be absolutely fine, like always. She had no evidence to suggest that anything else would happen. Just dehydrated. I was just dehydrated before.
She forced the feeling to the back of her mind, and systematically went about her chores. It wasn't everyday that she could go grocery shopping, she couldn't waste time lingering. As usual, the mental math involved with grocery shopping always gave her a sense of usefulness. She could do this. She could calculate how many potatoes she could get after purchasing the milk. She could calculate if lettuce or spinach was cheaper per unit. It was just simple cost-effectiveness formulas: multiplication, division, subtraction. Easy. It felt good to be useful instead of staying home and worrying her bottom lip for absolutely no reason.
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Notes: Hi! I usually like to post around 400-500 words, but I'm okay with various lengths as long as a. quality and b. I have something to work with. I'm sure that won't be anything to worry about though. This thread is currently OPEN. I don't really have an idea of which direction it's going to take, I just wanted to break out there with some actual rp posts. It's also my first post since returning after a few year hiatus, so I'm a little rusty. If you don't think this thread is a good fit for your character, but would like to plot, send me a PM. I'd love to hear from you. Ok, this is long but it's warrented since it's the first one uwu ok thx bye