[Open Post: Dog Catcher]
Feb. 5th, 2024 09:31 amLaertes is bundled up in a slate-grey peacoat and a bright red scarf, tromping across the grounds on a mission. He's still rattled by the day when he woke up next to Asmodean in Sagramore's body, and if he's rattled, then certainly Sagramore is doing worse. There are some comforts that not even a husband can offer, no matter how small and sweet he makes himself or how well he wears a collar.
Thus, Laertes has set himself a task. It should not be impossible--after all, Magnus and Galahad found Drosera in a shed, and they weren't even looking for her. He dutifully pokes through all of the sheds by the orchard, but all he finds are piles of dusty boxes and a truly absurd number of slim wheeled vehicles. Undeterred, he continues the search for new outbuildings, on the hypothesis that they might spring up after a mischief like mushrooms after a rain.
He is fully determined to find Sagramore a dog.
Thus, Laertes has set himself a task. It should not be impossible--after all, Magnus and Galahad found Drosera in a shed, and they weren't even looking for her. He dutifully pokes through all of the sheds by the orchard, but all he finds are piles of dusty boxes and a truly absurd number of slim wheeled vehicles. Undeterred, he continues the search for new outbuildings, on the hypothesis that they might spring up after a mischief like mushrooms after a rain.
He is fully determined to find Sagramore a dog.
[Open Post: Maiden Voyage]
Nov. 8th, 2023 03:55 pmIt's taken Laertes a little over a month, but at long last, his boat is ready for launch. About twenty feet from stem to stern, she has a mast with a single sail and a set of painstakingly carved oars for windless days. She's been sealed with pitch and painted a deep blue-green, with a spray of painted pink flowers decorating the timbers to either side of her keel. Along the gunwale, in the same pink edged with black, Laertes has painted her name: Rose of May.
Now he stands beside the posts of his dry dock, contemplating a problem that he had not adequately anticipated: how to get her into the water.
Now he stands beside the posts of his dry dock, contemplating a problem that he had not adequately anticipated: how to get her into the water.