01-08-2015, 03:19 AM
After New Years
Kiara spends a few days at the Chantry over the course of this week. She doesn't introduce any major changes to the house, but - the plants that survive out there seem a little brighter, there's a spider fern that appears in the kitchen one morning; vibrant and green and cheerful with wild pointed leaves that almost seem questing for the winter sunshine.
One of the bedrooms upstairs gets a temporary guest; clothes and a suitcase and thick blankets; Kiara on some evenings; for a short recess here and there. The spring gets frequent visits; Kiara alone, Kiara ... not so alone.
Callisto likely tolerates the comings and goings. Food is cooked; stored in the fridge; notes clipped there saying what's in each container. Fruits and vegetables spread across the counters for the days the Verbena is there. Bottles of wine are uncorked; the fireplace is stoked and the house smells rich with things like sandalwood; lavender; sage and rose for days after she returns to the city after these pilgrimages.
And every other day, flowers appear. In vases; in the kitchen; wild most. Touches of nature infringing into the Chantry's depths from its newest visitor.
Kiara spends a few days at the Chantry over the course of this week. She doesn't introduce any major changes to the house, but - the plants that survive out there seem a little brighter, there's a spider fern that appears in the kitchen one morning; vibrant and green and cheerful with wild pointed leaves that almost seem questing for the winter sunshine.
One of the bedrooms upstairs gets a temporary guest; clothes and a suitcase and thick blankets; Kiara on some evenings; for a short recess here and there. The spring gets frequent visits; Kiara alone, Kiara ... not so alone.
Callisto likely tolerates the comings and goings. Food is cooked; stored in the fridge; notes clipped there saying what's in each container. Fruits and vegetables spread across the counters for the days the Verbena is there. Bottles of wine are uncorked; the fireplace is stoked and the house smells rich with things like sandalwood; lavender; sage and rose for days after she returns to the city after these pilgrimages.
And every other day, flowers appear. In vases; in the kitchen; wild most. Touches of nature infringing into the Chantry's depths from its newest visitor.