brahilhli

The world is for the Wanderers. The fleet of foot, the strong of heart. Those who are brave and those who crave to know all that the world will impart. [ Characters and Universe created by Lottie (drakasvir & alruenn & othcrworld), used with express permission; I own only my interpretation of these wonderful characters she created. ]

[brahilhli]

(for anyone) "Stop right there." A man stood there, garbed in a red travelling coat, his dark hair shot with silver and one eye closed, scarred over heavily. His greeting -- if one could call it that -- came without anger, but with a warning tone. /Why/ became apparent seconds later, when a large, snarling monster landed right in front of the other. "Stay close to me." -- Auron

@ofthebravc { Auron }

“As wonderful advice as I’m sure that as based on what I’m hearing,” the young woman begins, an edge to her voice that might be recognized as nervousness, “––you’ll have to keep talking for me to even get near to you.”

Perhaps at that point, though she is not using a cane, her would-be protector might notice that her eyes do not focus on him, but rather in the vague direction from whence she had heard his voice.

“Or tell me which direction not to run. I’m not terribly picky, so long as it doesn’t end in blood or an explanation to Berrain about why I cannot continue to be his bartender…”

[rarerpmemes]

brave / starter sentences.

❛  our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.  ❜

❛  pretend i’m _____, speak to me.  what would you say?  ❜

❛  i don’t want to get married!  i want to stay single and let my hair flow in the wind as i ride through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset!  ❜

❛  some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it.  ❜

❛  i don’t believe you! i’ve just about had enough of you, lass!  ❜

❛  oh, that’s attractive.  ❜

❛  you’ll never guess what i did today!  ❜

❛  never conjure where you carve, dear.  ❜

❛  a princess does not set her weapons on the table.  ❜

❛  where did you get this water? it’s got worms!  ❜

❛  find these berries down by the creek, did you?  ❜

❛  at least we have hair!  ❜

❛  delivery! sign here, sign here… come on, birdbrain.  i haven’t got all day.  ❜

❛  feast your eyes!❜

❛  where are you, you little rascal?  i’m coming to get you!  ❜

❛  i’ll fight you with my bare hands!  ❜

❛  fate be changed, look inside. mend the bond torn by pride.  ❜

[brahilhli]

[ @ofthebravc continued from here ]

“Sounds bloody familiar.” Erron muttered, with a distinct level of both disappointment and ANGER in his tone. How many times had Castar claimed to have SEEN THE LIGHT and REPENTED FOR HIS CRIMES, and only gone back on that the very second that attention was focused away from him? The rogue captain seemed determined to piss off every man and make every woman as uncomfortable as he could fucking manage. 

Eyes narrowing in concern, he turned his focus onto Amerdyce. “Are you alright? If he bothers you, just let me know. I’m certain some of the other folks here are as…frustrated with his behaviour.” If it had to come to a fight to get Castar to see that his actions negatively affected others, then that was what it had to come to.  @brahilhli 

The look she levels at him is almost equal parts amused and mild exasperation.

“Despite the circumstances by which we met, I am quite capable of dealing with threats on my own.”

Then, with an almost wry glimmer in her eyes. 

“Besides, the fool thought to compliment my hands would gain him favor––because, in his words, ‘what other man does this?’. I think I am in no danger.” 

[brahilhli]

@ofthebravc​

Stubborn Mule,,

“But of course,” Ammery muttered, “of course you are.” He was running a heat to him that made her deeply concerned, though she hid it well. She knew that the Dir-Fain, unlike their highborn kin (who, though they could still get sick, were a good deal more durable in that regard), could get unwell quite as easily as a mortal. “You are hot as a furnace, though you are pale as a ghost. I forgot that that was the typical state for one of your people.” Though her words seemed sharp, there was no true barb to them, and as he lay there she drew a comfortable woollen blanket up over his body. 

“It is alright, you know. To become unwell, and to need time to heal yourself up. It does not mean that you have failed.” Everyone was weak, sometimes. Everyone fell down, and they only got back up stronger.  @brahilhli

“Be that… as it may,” he begins, forcing his eyes open again, fighting sleep with every ounce of strength his exhausted body retains. “Be that as it may, I am still fine…" 

It is only then, only as the blanket settles over him––so warm and so very welcome––that some of the fuzziness seems to ebb, granting him a moment of clarity. Enough, at least, that he huffs and makes an attempt at sitting up once more.

“And besides that, Erron… he needs me. The Sunstar was to provide…” His brow furrows again, as though what he had meant to say has escaped him, only to catch it again but a moment later. “We were to provide reinforcement to The Fury…”

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➳ ALICE IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL; STARTER SENTENCES.

❛ It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. ❜

❛ We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. ❜

❛ Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ❜

❛ If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? ❜

❛ Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. ❜

❛ I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’ ❜

❛ Curiouser and curiouser! ❜

❛ One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ❜

❛ Why is a raven like a writing-desk? ❜

❛ If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. ❜

❛ No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ❜

❛ Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. ❜

❛ Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it. ❜

❛ I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see? ❜

❛ My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that. ❜

❛ Off with their heads! ❜

❛ Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. ❜

❛ No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. ❜

❛ It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. ❜

❛ It’s always tea-time. ❜

❛ I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and I don’t believe you do either! ❜

❛ Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves. ❜

❛ Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. ❜

❛ You’re thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk. ❜

❛ Birds of a feather flock together. ❜

[bluesmemethings]

The Last Unicorn (1982) starters.

❛  I dislike the feel of these woods.  ❜

❛  Unicorns? I thought they only existed in fairytales.  ❜

❛  This is a forest like any other. Isn’t it ?  ❜

❛  Let’s turn around. Hunt somewhere else.  ❜

❛  This is no world for you.  ❜

❛  Good luck to you, for you are the last.  ❜

❛  What do men know ?  ❜

❛  We are as old as the sky, old as the moon.  ❜

❛  We can be hunted, we can be trapped, we can even be killed but we do not vanish !  ❜

❛  Have you traveled very far ?  ❜

❛  Be a little respectful, do you know who I am ?  ❜

❛  Your name is a golden bell, hung in my heart.  ❜

❛  I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.  ❜

❛  In all your wanderings, have you seen others like me ?  ❜

❛  Have you seen the others? Where have they gone? Tell me which way I must go to find them.  ❜

❛  No, no, listen ! Don’t listen to me, listen !  ❜

❛  You can find the others if you are brave.  ❜

❛  What if they’re waiting for me ? In need of my help ?  ❜

❛  Well hello there little one !  ❜

❛  And just who might you belong to ? a pretty little thing like you ?  ❜

❛  In my heart I carry such a heavy load.  ❜

❛  And here I thought I’d seen the last of them !  ❜

❛  I know you. If I were blind I would know what you are.  ❜

❛  You wouldn’t have heard of me.  ❜

❛  It’s not much of a job for a real magician, but I’ve had worse.  ❜

❛  You’re mine. If you kill me, you’re still mine.  ❜

❛  Your death sits in that cage and she hears you.  ❜

❛  She’ll kill me one day or another, but she will remember forever that I caught her, that I held her prisoner. So there’s my immortality.  ❜

❛  You were out on the road hunting for your own death !  ❜

❛  He’ll not have you ! You belong to me.  ❜

❛  We are two sides of the same magic.  ❜

❛  You are safer here. You should thank me for protecting you.  ❜

❛  There has never been a spell on me before.  ❜

❛  It’s a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.  ❜

❛  Will you help me ?  ❜

❛  You’re my last chance.  ❜

❛  Can you truly set me free ?  ❜

❛  I asked him a riddle and it always takes that lout all night to solve riddles.  ❜

❛  the spell was wrong but there was true magic in it ! try again.  ❜

❛  My dear you deserve the services of a great wizard but I’m afraid you’ll have to be glad of the aide of a second rate pickpocket.  ❜

❛  Okay, (name), I give up. Why is a raven like a writing desk ?  ❜

❛  She’ll kill you if you set her free !  ❜

❛  Don’t look back, and don’t run.  ❜

❛  You must never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention.  ❜

❛  She chose her death long ago. It was the fate she wanted.  ❜

❛  You have no regrets as I do ?  ❜

❛  I’ve never seen anyone like you. Not while I was awake, anyway.  ❜

❛  I’m going where they are, to learn whatever they know.  ❜

❛  Take me with you ! for luck, for laughs, for the unknown.  ❜

❛  You could never have granted my true wish.  ❜

❛  I cannot turn you into something you are not.  ❜

❛  Hide yourself ! We’ll find each other later.  ❜

❛  Mind your heads now, it’s raining ninnies !  ❜

❛  Put me down you fool !  ❜

❛  I don’t like the look of him.  ❜

❛  That’s only (name)’s way, but she has a good heart.  ❜

❛  This is not happening.  ❜

❛  We’ll both be gentlemen of leisure in a months time.  ❜

❛  Oh, I love you.  ❜

❛  She shall never have you !  ❜

❛  We will perish together.  ❜

❛  Did you see me ? Were you watching ?  ❜

❛  Did you see what I made ?  ❜

❛  It’s gone now, but I had it !  ❜

❛  Where have you been ? Where have you been ! ?  ❜

❛  Where were you when I was new ?  ❜

❛  How dare you come to me now when I am this !  ❜

❛  It’s alright, I forgive you.  ❜

❛  You can’t come with us ! we’re on a quest !  ❜

❛  Well, you’re going the wrong way.  ❜

❛  You have all the power you need if you dare to look for it.  ❜

❛  What have you done ! ?  ❜

❛  The power will come to me whenever I need it, and one day! One day it will come to me when I call !  ❜

❛  You are an idiot !  ❜

❛  Don’t ! Don’t you hurt yourself !  ❜

❛  I can feel this body dying all around me !  ❜

❛  You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  I will keep nothing near me that does not make me happy.  ❜

❛  How would you know ?  ❜

❛  Well, just look at you !  ❜

❛  Come on, I’ll write you a reference.  ❜

❛  You have let your doom in by the front door !  ❜

❛  What are you looking at ?  ❜

❛  What is the matter with your eyes ?  ❜

❛  You may come and go as you please.  ❜

❛  My secrets guard themselves, may yours do the same.  ❜

❛  Please, let me help you. What can I do for you ?  ❜

❛  And then she looked at me and I was sorry I had killed the thing.  ❜

❛  For her sake I’ve become a hero but my great deeds mean nothing to her !  ❜

❛  I wish to be whatever she has most need of.  ❜

❛  You are cruel to him.  ❜

❛  He only wishes you to think of him.  ❜

❛  Who am I ? Why am I here ?  ❜

❛  I knew a moment ago, but I have forgotten.  ❜

❛  I was innocent and wise and full of pain.  ❜

❛  Now that I’m a woman, everything has changed.  ❜

❛  Why won’t you help me ? Why must you always speak in riddles ?  ❜

❛  I would tell you what you want to know if I could.  ❜

❛  I am always dreaming, even when I am awake. It is never finished.  ❜

❛  I would court you with more grace if I knew how.  ❜

❛  Drown out my dreams. Keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it.  ❜

❛  Words are always getting in my way.  ❜

❛  That’s all I have to tell you. That’s all I’ve got to say.  ❜

❛  I’m not a man of poetry. Music isn’t one with me.  ❜

❛  As if I didn’t have enough troubles.  ❜

❛  Well of course you’re of noble birth, anyone could see that.  ❜

❛  Love is slowing you down, my lady.  ❜

❛  It was pleasant enough at first, but it died quickly.  ❜

❛  There is nothing of yours that I desire.  ❜

❛  There is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you.  ❜

❛  I like to watch them. They fill me with joy.  ❜

❛  The first time I felt it, I thought I was going to die.  ❜

❛  Do you dare still pretend to be human ?  ❜

❛  It makes no difference. The end will be the same. I can wait.  ❜

❛  Shut up you pretentious kneecap !  ❜

❛  How would you like a punch in the eye ?  ❜

❛  It’s so nice to have someone to play with.  ❜

❛  Try me tomorrow. Maybe I’ll tell you tomorrow.  ❜

❛  Give it to me if you don’t want it but don’t throw it away !  ❜

❛  Give me the wine !  ❜

❛  You would have gone without me ?  ❜

❛  No name you could give her would surprise or frighten me.  ❜

❛  I love whom I love.  ❜

❛  I will go no further.  ❜

❛  Everything dies. I want to die when you die.  ❜

❛  Yes, that is my wish.  ❜

❛  I am a hero, and heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen.  ❜

❛  A quest may not simply be abandoned.  ❜

❛  A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.  ❜

❛  What if there isn’t a happy ending at all ?  ❜

❛  There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.  ❜

❛  Do something ! You have the power ! I will kill you if you don’t do something !  ❜

❛  That’s what heroes are for.  ❜

❛  I’ve never had any friends before.  ❜

❛  Men don’t always know when they’re happy.  ❜

❛  I’m sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.  ❜

❛  No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy.  ❜

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Sad and Soft  {Sentence Starters}

❛❛ I took your hoodie and I’m not giving it back. ❜❜

❛❛ Please just… just hold me. ❜❜

❛❛ C’mere. Lean on me. ❜❜

❛❛ You look like you need a hug. Come here. ❜❜

❛❛ I’m never leaving this blanket nest ever again. ❜❜

❛❛ I know you don’t like hugs, but… I could really use one right now… ❜❜

❛❛ Just stay a little longer. Please. ❜❜

❛❛ It’s so cold outside, but you’re so warm… ❜❜

❛❛ I’m sorry. I should have asked first, just… it reminded me of you. ❜❜

❛❛ Let me hold you for a while. ❜❜

❛❛ It’s okay. I’ve got you. ❜❜

❛❛ Everything hurts. Being with you is the only good thing in the world anymore. ❜❜

❛❛ Hey, hey, don’t cry. It’s okay. C’mon, come sit under the blanket with me. ❜❜

❛❛ All I want to do is sit and eat cookies and watch cheesy romcoms right now. But I’d love some company. ❜❜

❛❛ I brought blankets, takeout, and your favourite movie. I know it won’t fix everything, but it might help. ❜❜

❛❛ Please stay with me tonight. I don’t want to be alone. ❜❜

❛❛ I made some tea. Now, do you need to talk? Or should I just put on some music? ❜❜

❛❛ I’m not going to leave. I’ll stay as long as you need me to. ❜❜

❛❛ Your hair’s soft… I just want to pet it until I forget everything but how soft it is… ❜❜

❛❛ Shh, shh. It’s okay. You’re alright. You’re safe now. ❜❜

❛❛ I know you’re hurting right now, and I’m so sorry. Tell me what will help and I’ll do it. ❜❜

❛❛ I just want to see you smile again. ❜❜

❛❛ This is stupid but… could you sing to me? You have such a nice voice, and I think it might help calm me down… you don’t have to, but… ❜❜

❛❛ Lay your head in my lap and try to get some rest. ❜❜

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“You didn’t have to come out as well.” Stood outside on the manor’s porch, staring out into the grim, frosty night, Thianel couldn’t quite suppress a shudder. Wasn’t she a state and a half? The first proper ‘expedition’ as Teach’s designated guard, the exact time when she really needed to grow up, and fast, so as to not embarrass her charge, or her Queen, or their hosts for the evening… And she was so anxious!  She couldn’t even explain it either. No matter how much she tried to settle, something kept making her come back outside, even though it was ridiculously cold out and so dark that she couldn’t even see as far as the end of the garden path, and even with elf-vision. Fog was creeping in over the trees, and maybe that was what made everything feel so eerie. Thianel wasn’t sure. She just knew she couldn’t stay still, for some reason, and she couldn’t stay inside (and likely for the same reason!) and her eyes kept being drawn back, again and again, to a particular area of tree-line.  And she wouldn’t leave the porch, not for any money. Not to go further into the shadows of the garden, not to double-check the perimeter, not to look out for her Queen’s approach.  She couldn’t quite shake the feeling that they weren’t alone. “It’s cold out. You should go back inside, maybe make sure the doors and windows are all secure.” @noxsons

[brahilhli]

“Perhaps I did not need to come out here and yet here I am,” he answers, acting as though he had not even heard what else she had said. 

No, he does not wish to go inside, is not certain he could even if he were to wish it. His attention is elsewhere, in fact the very same place her gaze seems to have been drawn…

There is a feeling to the air and a pounding in his blood that he knows all too well. The surge of the restless sea before the storm, before the hurricane comes bearing down upon whatever poor souls stand in its path. The thrill that comes at the first sight of sails just above the horizon, of knowing that fight or flight is soon to follow, that men’s courage and strength will be tested against that of another, that fates would be decided, that only the strongest would live.

How familiar and even welcome that thrum is when out on the waves, when commanding his ship and those who sail upon it… but here, on land… away from the creaking boards and the smell of sea salt and gunpowder… Here it is not a thrill… but rather a dread.

He turns to address his other little shadow as she uncertainly lingers in the doorway. 

“Abe. Secure the windows and other entrances and inform Lords Blakeney and Caestor that something may be amiss… Hurry along now, and do not tarry.”

Only once Abigail Abe has departed does he look again to Thianel.

“… You sense it, too. Do you not?” he asks, yet it is not truly a question. He has spent enough time around the young guard by now to know her habits. And this current restless desire to sit outside in the bitter, cold blackness of a moonless night… is not one. 

“What is this unknown that lurks just beyond sight and perception? …” 

One hand drifting to the grip of a pistol, the other to the hilt of the blade at his side, he stares out at the unnatural fog, his brow furrowed and a frown deeply set into his lined face. 

“Whatever it may be… I feel in my bones that it does not bode well…”

[brahilhli]

@ofthebravc { Caevath }

Berrain had told her about the conversation that had led to Erron and Hathlim bringing the Queen’s so very quiet(?), reserved(?) guard to the tavern. Had told her about the (good-natured) teasing and their (jokingly made) plan.

She had been the one to point out that Erron and Hathlim’s humor doesn’t always translate well to others and Berrain had agreed, saying he’d keep an eye on the three of them. 

Though her blindness is well-known to any who visit the bar––the circumstances behind it less so––she is not without means of keeping track of people. Where her eyes may fail her, her other senses and her memory do not. 

And so upon noticing the subject of the two’s scheme still sitting at the bar, still nursing the same drink she’d poured for him nigh an hour ago, she decides that perhaps it is time to say something.

“You don’t have to listen to them, you know. There’s no need to rush,” she offers at last, leaning on the bar, her sightless eyes seemingly settled upon him. 

“And, you needn’t ever go further than you’re comfortable. There’s nothing wrong with you for it, and despite Erron and Hathlim’s sometimes excessive teasing, they would tell you the same… if they weren’t too preoccupied regaling their audiences with their tall tales to notice you fidgeting with that pint." 

"She’s right,” agrees another voice, a deep rumble of a chuckle following as the Old Bear turns from his place cleaning mugs and draws closer. 

“You could walk out right now, turn down every young lady with her pretty eyes set on you tonight––and there are more than a few, trust me––and they won’t judge you. Wouldn’t do anything more than continue to tease you.”

“ –– Only in jest, of course. They’re good lads, the both of them. If it bothers you, all you have to do is tell them to leave you be, and they will. Or better yet, point out to the both of them that sharing a bed with someone for the sake of it… isn’t nearly so nice as sharing it with someone important. They both ought to understand that by now.”

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"Happy Father's Day." Erron was beaming from ear to ear. "Also we captured a treasure galleon."

@alruenn

In that moment, how few might have guessed that these two––witnessing both grinning so much the same, observing the amount of paternal pride and love from the older––are not, in fact, related.

“Happy Father’s Day to m––” 

Yet then the rest of the other’s words seem to process and Berrain’s expression changes to one of amused disbelief.

“Wait, wait, wait. You captured a  t r e a s u r e  galleon?”

“I helped!” adds a rather indignant almost-whine from the doorway as the other walks into the pub and approaches them.

“Do you honestly think that this one,” he indicates Erron with no more than a flick of his eyes and the raise of an eyebrow, a cocky smirk in place, “––could have managed such a feat as that without me?”

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Muse Trust Test!

How much does your muse trust mine? Leave a rating in my ask box and my muse will react to it!

❤❤❤  I trust you with my life. I know you would never hurt me. ❤❤  I could let my guard down and fall asleep in your presence and feel safe. ❤  I think I trust you, but I am still cautious around you. ☰  I am still trying to figure you out. I’m not sure if I can trust you. 💔  Something’s just not right. I’m afraid of you. 💔💔  I’m pretty sure you want to hurt me, and I intend to protect myself. 💔💔💔  The first chance I get, I’m killing you before you kill me.

Or, send ❣⁉ and I will respond with my muse’s rating of their level of trust for yours.

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There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

Jim Butcher, White Night (via wordsnquotes)