( text, un: lavieenrose )

[affectueux]

Bonjour, everyone.

This post will be much more light-hearted than my last one. While looking for things to keep me occupied during Sanguis so as to not disturb others, I happened across this book in the “digital library.”




It’s a gripping tale of a Prismal girl and her horse seeking freedom in a world that would hope to suppress them. I don’t want to spoil it, but I did notice that it seems to be a part of a series. If anyone knows where I might find physical copies of the rest of them, please let me know.

Incidentally, it has inspired me to ride again. Where can I find a stable? Or horses, for that matter? I was in the equestrian club in school, so I assure you I am no amateur.

Bien cordialement,

Serge

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[wearingguess]

Thank you. I will remember.

I do have some pictures, if you are interested...?

[affectueux]

I am.

[ serge is going to have to boil the water again, in his poor, taxed electric kettle… but it’ll be worth it to see titus so small. ]

That is, if you don’t mind…

[wearingguess]

Not at all!

[ he pulls out his device and starts going through his camera roll!!
...the past month or two notwithstanding, he's REALLY taken a ton of pictures... even filtering by selfies isn't helping much. ]

...They are in here somewhere...

[ now might be a good time to get the tea ready ]

[affectueux]

…

[ serge didn’t even know the device could contain so many pictures. he isn’t a big user of it, so he lets titus scroll for a few seconds before realizing that they could be here for… hours? days?

he stands. ]

I’ll prepare the tea while you search. Again, feel free to help yourself to the cookies.

[wearingguess]

[ eventually he finds them!!

when serge comes back he will hand the device over. ]

Here's the first one; just scroll through to the right.

[ there are a dozen or so in all; a few are out of focus (the device's on-board camera wasn't quite made to detect this type of subject, and it certainly wasn't developed with users of this size in mind), but he got the hang of it eventually, so most of them are okay! they depict a not-quite-four-inch-tall titus with the aforementioned antennae and butterfly wings. (in a few shots, the light catches just right to show how they reflect in a sparkling blue.)

of course, his clothes did not shrink with him, so he's barefoot and clad in a tunic fashioned out of a linen handkerchief; in many he's wielding a fancy stickpin, and in most of the rest it's tucked into his belt (which is, of course, a length of knotted thread). ]

[affectueux]

[ serge sets down the two cups of tea to take the device instead, and his expression says everything the moment he manages to actually spot titus in the first picture. no, nooo, he’s so cute. ]

My goodness…

[ an understatement. ]

You look like a little creature from a fairy tale! Thumbelina, perhaps?

[ he’s going to cry. his claws tap the screen as he scrolls through the device. ]

[wearingguess]

[ titus starts in on the tea at once, because he likes tea, and because it's nice to have a prop at a time like this!! he feels shy all of a sudden, but also he's kind of proud that serge seems to like it, and his heart's fluttering a bit...!! (if this is the way he made serge feel earlier, then he's not really sorry...) ]

I fear I am not familiar with Thumbelina.
It's a... good thing to look like them, I hope?

[affectueux]

Really? It’s a popular fairy tale in my world. She’s a girl scarcely bigger than a finger… and that’s about the sum of it.

[ serge isn’t a master storyteller, okay. he’s here to read, not to write. ]

…in other words, it’s a compliment.

[ he hands titus’ device back, with a smile. ]