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November 24, 2007
Nanowrimo: storm
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The second day of the stranger’s stay starts dry and bright. There seems to have been more sunlight since he arrived, everyone is thinking this and looking either at him (he’s started wandering around the cabins’ periphery) or towards the Major’s cabin, where they think he lies sleeping, like a fairy tale. He has a certain look about him, a femininity- ridiculously long eyelashes, for starters. Long legs, that you can see even in the legs of his suit (and some of the viewers wonder when he’ll get something else to wear), and a slant to the cheek bones that give him a Slavic cast. It makes his eyes tilt up as well, and those eyes- again no one can tell if it is the eyes themselves that cast the spell, or if it is their own wish to have someone here, someone who they haven’t said hello to a thousand times, haven’t argued with over the same trivia, shared tea with to pass the time, squabbled over what to do with the last care drop and how to share out the sugar, the powdered milk.He certainly is carrying more than his fair share of burdensome need and desire, this stranger- the tension is solid following the paths of the cabin artery system, it sits and swims around the village hall, is strongest in each and every home, where people wake up and their immediate thought is of him: what he is doing, where he is, who he is talking to. Only Midge and Phil have noticed that there has been a rapid drop in barometric pressure, their bright yellow plastic barometer being tapped every morning and the changes noted by the once amateur, now professional, fishermen. Whilst everyone else is looking out at the bright blue shining dome of the sky, Midge and Phil catch each other’s eye as they stir sugar into their tea.
Posted by scumkitten at November 24, 2007 03:38 PM
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