@c-foley tagged me in this meme - share a line/paragraph/excerpt from your current WIP (fic or otherwise), so here’s a chunk of stuff from Alleirat out of context.
One was a girl, younger than I’d been when I first came to Alleirat, and she caught my hand fearlessly as I passed.
“Sena,” she said in a clear voice, and I looked down in surprise, meeting her dark eyes. She stared back, her skin darkening with a flush, until finally sweat broke out on her forehead beneath her curls and I shifted my gaze to her cheek.
“What can I do for you, meilali?” I asked, crouching down to be on a level with her.
“Is it true? My mama says that the Fireheart died in battle against the White Wolf,” she said with all the self-import of a young child assured of her own knowledge, “but Merra’s mama says that she heard from her wife’s amiasa that you’re really her.”
“I, ah.” I looked up at Krei, helpless, and she held out a hand, as if to say it was up to me. I turned back to the little girl, who reached out to touch a lock of my hair where it had tumbled over my shoulder. “Yeah, meimare,” I said quietly. I hoped that meimare was still an endearment people used—little fish, uncommon in inland areas but popular in Dase in my time. “It’s true.”
“Wow,” she said, eyes wide, and she looked up into my eyes again, the flush rising on her beaming cheeks again. “I’m Lillet, sena.”
I grinned a little. “Ilna nai, Lillet,” I said, offering a hand, and she bounced on her toes as she clasped my wrist, excited to be treated like a grown up. “I’m Brenneth.”
I’ll tag @littlestartopaz, @wildehacked, @aethersea, @skymurdock, and anyone else who wants to do it.
