#erstwhille

[songofthealps]

“Pippa!” Knocking was exhausting, and she wasn’t answering for who knew what reason. Maybe she had busied herself with a book, she might have forgotten Lara was coming and gone out, or she was being busy. Who knew. What Lara did know was that she had a cake for her, a lovely one, with berries, pink frosting, and a lot of care and time put into it. She didn’t want to eat it alone. 

“Pippa please! I’m not going to ask you anything stupid, I have cake, I’m trying to be nice.. Didn’t we say we’d have tea and talk today?!” She needed a break, both from her twin and from the rest of the world. “Pleaseeee.” 

[vonprasserei]

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Julia silently poured her friend a second glass, her lips drawn in to form a thin line and her shoulders stiff to maintain her composure. A raucous fit of laughter on her part would draw the wrong kind of attention toward the two and dear Pippa’s spirits seemed dampened enough.

“Only once, by one of your boys. I told him I’m no dancer, and yet he was still quite offended when I stepped on his feet. ‘Do all German ladies stomp around like wild horses’?” She hooked an arm around the English woman’s elbow and said, her voice low, “Do you actually want to dance with any of these silly men?”

[forntidafriheter]

‘  has  it  been  that  long?  ’

question meme || accepting

"Likely so," Mikael said plainly, looking over at Pippa with a curious expression on his face. "Last time we met, I was just a boy and you... Were giving lice to my brother."

[diimsum]

“ there is no happy ending here. you know that, surely? ”

Intimidation Prompts!

“One man’s happy ending is another man’s tragedy, but you know as well as I do I will do everything in my power to be the former.”

“I’d hope you have some faith in me, even in that regard.”

[mxrseillaise]

“ i don’t know what to say ”

Poetry Starters!

♕▬ “What is it that the English say? Silence is golden?” A tilt of the head and a cocky smile follow her comment, signaling an incoming jibe. 

“Perhaps it is something you’d benefit from the most.”

[overthefjords]

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Aleks could not remember the last time he was on English soil. At least in recent memory. The ones seared into his head were more... bloody, and came from many, many lifetimes ago when the world was smaller.

Now though? The Norseman was making his way through the embassy, folder of papers tucked under his arm. Pippa was... here somewhere. Or at least that was what the desk staff told him.

"Gods, there you are," Aleks smiled as he opened the conference room. "The last time I was here, the building wasn't this big. I apologise for keeping you waiting."