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Luna Edae

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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:45 am

Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:05 am

Elle's entire face was covered in a huge grin. Jokeph had written to her!

She was glad she'd started to study illusions, it gave her an excuse to write back before Luna sent another letter.

...well, that, and it'd be unpolite to not thank him.

She wrote a response quickly, the last part sending her face and neck red all over again. Then Elle concentrated on placing a spell within a piece of paper that simply said, 'Surprise!'...

Half an hour later, and with Elle's entire body exhausted to the point of needing something to lean on, she had finished Luna's surprise. Whenever the letter opened, tiny harmless fireworks a few inches high would come out and do little colorful showers. She'd only done red, blue and green fireworks... but it would do.

Both pieces of paper went into the envelope, Elle gave it to Enid, and crawled into bed where she immediately fell asleep.

Neiith

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Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:57 am

Neith wasn't exactly one to think things through, as most of her friends had probably found out. She loved to make rash choices, decide to do things on a whim, or to change something...

But it wasn't exactly normal for her to do something as big as change homes.

It hadn't been a quick change. Neith had started out by having her huge block of land subdivided. One quarter of it became homes and property, one half of it became a protected nature reserve, and last quarter became an area solely for Elves. This had been planned without telling anyone but the elves.

It hadn't been hard to rent out the houses she'd built, and she'd been lucky. The properties became pretty popular- after all, they were within a stone's throw of a nature reserve and parkland, and were close enough to Barton without being too close.

Neith had bought a new property when she'd decided she had enough renters sign contracts. It was twice as large as her first, twice as far from anywhere, twice as wild and uncleared. But the best part about this land was a river. It had a large river running straight down the middle of the land, with smaller islands dotted right along the river.

The land, Neith had been told, had once been cleared for use. Once it had native bushland, and sheltered fields. But neglect had seen blackberries take over everything. Shrubs and bushes had grown wild over the open areas, and soon the land had become an area too overcome with thorns and prickles to be useable any longer.

She had been assured that if someone could just take the time to clear the land back to the original state, it would be just as good as it used to be.

Neith had bought it, seen it and realised what 'a bit o' work' had really meant.

It was a lot of work.

There was only one small field that was almost-clear. On one edge of it behind a rotting wooden fence was a small cabin, dusty and falling apart with neglect. The cabin only had three main rooms, a main bedroom, a bathroom and a living/kitchen room. There was apparently a cellar as well, but Neith couldn't find any trace of an entrance under the trash or the overgrown garden.

She had cleared out the field around the garden and cabin. While Neith went about renting their Barton home, her friends had started to set up the field for living in. Large tents were erected, the house made useable, areas for water-collecting from the large river...

Neith, Elle and Aquene weren't the only ones moving onto the land. They had been joined by ten of the elves who had originally settled on Neith' first land. And after a quick meeting, it was decided that the cottage would be used as a general building. Everyone would live in tents.

Elle was NOT impressed. She was even less impressed when most of her furniture and belongings were stored in a storage place in Durem... but it was the fact that she was now living in the middle of no-where that really annoyed her.

Aquene, however, was impressed. For a good three hours she'd entertained herself in the overgrown garden next to the cabin. According to her, there was nothing better.

By the end of the week things were set up. There was a tent city on the small cleared field, the cottage's broken windows had been either boarded up, replaced, or stickytaped with plastic wrap till something better could be done.

Elle continued being unhappy for a few days afterwoods. She hadn't been asked, and she was sure that she was now old enough to be asked. Wasn't she? She was nearly an adult.

But she did like her tent. It was a large arabic-like style tent that gave her room to move. She wasn't sure if she'd ever get used to fabric walls, or the way she could hear everything going on outside all the time. It had two fabric rooms, but Elle had found that her mum had separated both rooms into smaller ones by wooden dividers. They only had sparse furniture now, but as her mum had reassured her, all Elle had to do was to decide what to bring into the tent and get it here.

She had set up her 'entrance room' as a study. Her old couch was now sitting there as if it always had, draped over with fabric. The desk had been placed against the couch. Two bookshelves, small and thick ones, were nearby in an adjoining part of the fabric room. They were already covered with books. Elle had made sure that out of everything, her books were the first to get moved, so she could make sure nothing got damaged.

Apparently Mum and the other elves had gotten together around Elle's computer while she was out, and ordered tents together. (A major achievement for elves who disliked technology in general.) Naturally, they'd spent hours. It took a long time to order all the equipment for a feat such as this, esspically when you wanted to match the entire set and make it look good.

Elle had also found a present. It was a pack of things for 'camping', a headlamp, ugg boots, several beautiful elf-made glass lanterns, bug repellent in the form of incense, two trunks of clothing...

Bribes from the adults, in other words. They were begging her via gifts to be nice to them, and to not be a teenager. No yelling, screaming, any of that. She had sighed and decided to play nice.

But a few days later Elle found something that did make her feel better. She found the islands on the river. And the isolation of parts of the land. This place was so much better to practice magic than the suburbs, for she had real privacy there. She didn't have to create mists to hide in, Elle only had to hollow out thorns in a part of this land and she had exactly what she needed.

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:49 pm

Luna Edae

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Neiith

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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:05 pm

Elle settled down on the couch, tugging a cushion over to cuddle it close. The movie captured her mind this time, and she was already getting droopy when she felt Luna's head slump onto her shoulder.

Maybe that was a good idea...

Moments later, she was fast asleep as well, her mind tired out from earlier and exposed to parts of whatever Luna dreamt... Elle stared at the letter in her hands, her hands trembling just slightly. It was a letter from Luna and she'd kind of been expecting one after that kitchen with the tin... though she knew that the tin really didn't have anything to do with it.

First kiss? Well... that was a way of putting it.

And she really didn't think she regretted it either. That was what freaked her out the most. After they'd fallen asleep, she'd picked up scraps of dream that she reconized as Luna's dreams, and they weren't about first kisses. True- they were only scraps, and perhaps they were just. Um. Misleading. Luna could have just been performing mouth to mouth resussiation?

In her dream.

Well, it still didn't change the fact that she didn't regret any of it. She'd really enjoyed the night, and now she was so bloody confused that she wanted to crawl into her thorny den and hide from the world.

If she ran into Luna again, Luna would probably know everything that Elle knew. Everything she thought. While that didn't disturb her as much as it might others, it made Elle very aware tha if she went too close to Luna right now... well, Luna would know that there wasn't regret. And then what?

Elle folded the letter up and slipped it into her pocket. She wanted to reply but her mind was so overwhelmed with confusion that Elle just didn't know what to write. So instead she decided to hide for a bit. Hiding was good.

Packing her tent, and several bits of clothes (The rest could wait for the next trip), Elle trecked down into the thorn den she'd dug out for her magic practice. She doubted anyone would find her here!

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:24 pm

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Neiith

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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:39 pm

The thorn-den was pretty well set up for Elle's experiments. The blackberries had grown high, and she'd encoraged them to grow over the space she'd cleared by placing arches across the top and winding blackberries over them.

There was a circle in the middle for smoke to rise out of for her fires- sometimes it got cold at night and she liked to light a fire there. The path was narrow... but Elle had pushed aside the blackberry thorns with a sort of fence made up of flywire and star pickets. Not exactly a professional's work but it kept them from scratching her.

And now there was also a small tent. Elle had a generator humming away very quietly, she needed it for the small fridge, a tarp stuck up for shelter from rain... it was a nice little set up. Isolated, peaceful, seperated from the confusion of the outside world.

Elle had got a good lot of her books into the tent, and was even thinking about extending the blackberry clearing as to make room for a little brick hut in there. It was a biiiig dream for someone who'd only slightly managed a flywire and star picket fence, but Elle liked it. Her mum didn't need this field, so why should she mind?

She hadn't ignored Luna's letter. Elle had spent well over an hour agnoizing over a pad of paper before she'd come up with what say, and sent it to Luna.