garmr: (golden age 10)
Guts ([personal profile] garmr) wrote in [community profile] lukeoutbelow 2023-01-07 08:20 am (UTC)

Guts is distracted briefly by the faint tinkling of the wind chimes, coaxed into each other by a nightly breeze. The glinting and movement of the bronze had a way of grabbing his attention, like he were waiting for some ill-fated thing to leap out.

The door creaks and draws his eyes back to Lashan shuffling into the dark. The house had a cozier scent than the taverns he'd stay at, sometimes. Less alcohol and sweat and overcooked starling rising up through the wooden rafters. Little noise. It was more like a well-built tent in a camp. Despite the clutter and intricate decoration, the fields and the forests still touched the place. He hangs up his lantern by the door, contributing to the points of light bathing the main room. The warmth felt nice compared to the brisk outdoors. Suddenly he was rather aware that the chill had made the pain in his legs numb over a little, greeted with discomfort as his limbs warmed up again.

"A lotta weird 'stuff' you got packed in here," he remarks. Somehow, Lashan having amassed a horde of junk over the course of her life seemed about right for her.

Much of the decor felt quite pagan (not that he cared beyond the observation) but it reminded him of some of the unusual objects he'd see at festivals. All the subtler ways that older traditions still found some life, even if the rituals were mostly dead. These trinkets seemed to have more weight to them, somehow. And a fixation with boars.

At Lashan's request, he sets Vena down into the quilts easily. She must be a heavy sleeper to have dozed through all that, he thinks to himself. Not one to leave a job-half finished, he drapes some of the quilts over her like a soft cocoon. Had to give the girl some other warm thing to cling to, since he wouldn't be there for long.

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