No. 4 - Winter
Patti only comes in winter, if ghosts can come and go. She walks across the open, bare yard but leaves no tracks in the fresh-fallen snow. If you're quick, you'll catch her glance up towards the window, but not the window you might be expecting.
No. 3 - Flicker
Beatriz is a flickering light and a strange sound when you're alone. She isn't seen and only noticed when she's ready. She might move a pen or a key or a bit of loose change. It's not even something you notice after awhile. That's how she's always been.
the Bone Garden ("maze")
Once upon a time there was a gardener whose joy was a magnificent mazy path of tenderly shaped cherries and lovingly trimmed roses. Folks came from all the land to wander the twisting paths and lose themselves in the arching boughs and dizzying blooms.
Then came conquest, and death. The garden, blood-soaked, was torched.
The next new moon it rose again, a labyrinth of bloodwood and bone.
The gardener walks its paths, wailing.
Will you enter?
No. 2 - Transfix
Amie can only be stared at and wondered at. She is breathtaking in death and impossible to look away from until she chooses to vanish. Then it all feels like a strange dream. Did you really see her, as she was and is and will always be or was it a trick somehow.
Joyeuse ("summer")
In sunshine and warmth, who wants to think of lost ones?
Some do. With all their heart.
As do the dead.
Sometimes you just want to reach out -- from either side -- somehow.
That's where the Veil works.
Joyeuse is one of them, a youth with an easy smile and a quick cold blade and a satchel sealed up close.
Letter for a loved one? Warning? A moment's glimpse, veil parted? Joyeuse can arrange it.
And don't try to nick his satchel. Bad idea, that.
#microprompt signal
Sir Edward stepped into the dragon's lair. Lights flashed. A siren wailed.
"What the hades?" Sir Edward exclaimed.
"That," said the dragon, "Is my new automatic knight signal. When a knight enters my chamber, an alarm alerts other dragons. All the hip dragons have them now. The skies will soon be croweded with dragons."
"Splendid!" Sir Edward held up a small box. "I no longer slay dragons, I capture their image on film. My new device is a camera...."
(Behind on these, too hot to word-)
No. 1 - Doorway
Willa wanders the places in-between, peeking in windows and lingering in doorways. She's the shadow in the corner of your eye and that prickly feeling that you're being watched. Why she lingers, well it's hard to say. Nobody really knew her in life, either.
Five years.
Five years ago, the Moon-Bone Prince -- the Emperor Everlasting -- claimed the Lapis Throne and all its kingdoms, crushing all in one cold fist.
None expected to see That Who Was Cast Down again, save perhaps as a corpse-trophy or the like --
And then, without fanfare, five years on, the Steel Emperor stalked through the Lapis Courts towards the dais; grey mane matted, eyes burning, flesh hardened.
With a bright burning blade.
#MicroPrompt (matted) #microfiction
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