I am so grateful to be doing it and even enjoying the experience but whew this training is around-the-clock and exhausting. Working out 1-2 hours a day is one thing, then add making sure I’m eating enough (its own physical & mental challenge) and sleeping enough—on top of working full-time and helping with the puppy and trying (mostly failing) to remain a communicative friend/family member/person
This week has just been hard bc it’s so cold every run is twice as draining and at the end of the day I have absolutely no energy to do anything I’d planned. I have an endless to-do list and people I should respond to and books to read and even race prep stuff but every day is flying by and I’m sleepy
Not complaining simply an observation that they (whoever they are) were not lying about marathon running being a challenge! Who would’ve thought
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there is something I want to draw/write so bad but I've been at work and school and haven't had time but
anyway
i cannot explain how badly I want to see Bishops stuff. the family drama... the healing and moving on, the it'll-never-be-the-same-but-that's-okay, the choice between clinging to the past or forging a new future....
also having thoughts for my AU and I. may or may not end up writing a fic after all. I just need to decide where I would want to start it. I think it'd start after the end of CotL, after Narinder has already settled into the cult community. Mainly bc there's already a lot of stories out there that go through the whole Lamb-Refuses-to-Sacrifice-Themself...
Thinking about prophecies and how in my AU it never reached "nothing." Narinder is still a god and the prophecy isn't complete... something about war and famine and chaos and pestilence leading to death and without death they lead to nothing.... something something self fulfilling prophecies....
anyway my AU is like. equal parts narilamb and bishop-family drama and slice-of-life and hurt/comfort and tragedy
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Prompt: Fictober: "Fine. Explain it to me."
Fandom: Lumine
Summary: Sera hasn't talked to Camille in a couple of weeks. Camille is desperate to find her and talk about it. (Takes place a few days after the initial incident).
Content Warnings: None that I can think of!
Words: 943
Through the crowd, Camille caught a brief glance of a familiar pink scarf. Though it was just out of reach, the face of its owner just out of sight—hair and ears hidden by a cap—she knew. She didn’t have to see her face to know that it was Sera. It was innate, almost like magic itself, the two had been so close to each other for so, so long, that even a few weeks of separation wouldn’t cause her to misidentify her.
“Sera!” Camille reached out, pushing past the couple as she shuffled through the small crowd of people looking at the farmer’s market booth. “Sera—” She lost sight of her for a moment and whipped around, her eyes scanning every face and outfit that she could.
Pink, pink, look for that pale pink scarf. She repeated to herself. Sera’s had it for years. It’s her favorite. She’s had it since we were in school.
When she saw the end of it, everything else in the world disappeared; the noise, the clutter of the walking path, the people nearby faded and left her alone in the cold winter sun with Sera. She reached out, seizing her arm and holding tight to the sleeve; her green eyes immediately flicking up to stare into her brown eyes.
“Where have you been?” Camille said, her eyes desperately scanning Sera’s face for any answer. Anything. “I’ve been worried sick about you—do you realize how long I’ve been trying to find you? You don’t answer my calls, my texts, you don’t answer your door or come over anymore—”
Not now. I can’t cry now. She scolded herself, her eyes burning as she stared at Sera’s aghast face. Ever since you accidentally took that stupid potion…
“Do you have any idea how much I’ve missed you…?”
“Camille…” Sera’s expression softened as she turned more to face her, her bag falling heavily against the bend of her elbow and rocking her only briefly. She reached out, taking Camille’s other arm in her own hand. “It’s a lot. And it’s just. Complicated. Dumb, it’s dumb…”
“Fine.” Camille replied, gritting her teeth as she squeezed Sera’s arm a little—a small reassurance that she was real, that she was here in front of her. That this wasn’t just a dream. “Explain it to me, then. Why are you trying so hard to avoid me?”
“I’ll explain. Just. Come on, let’s get off the street.” You’re actually about to cry… She tacked on silently, squeezing Camille’s arm in return before pulling away. Usually you’re so composed. A little grumpy, but… “Sorry about all of this.”
“God, I can’t believe I’m about to cry in front of you.” Camille hissed, still holding onto Sera’s arm as the two moved through the small crowd and towards a nearby bench. “In the middle of the street, at that.”
“It’s fine. I figured you would be upset…” Sera’s arm slid as she turned around to face her again; she moved to lightly touch Camille’s gloved hand, and waited for Camille to shift to hold her hand. “I really am sorry. I didn’t think it would bother you this much…”
“I hear you, I hear you.” Camille said, easing onto the bench as she held her hand loosely in hers. She squeezed, slowly relaxing. Sure, the warmth they shared was blocked by the gloves, but having her there, tangible, her voice grumbling and soft against her ears, it was reassuring enough. “So. Why…?”
Sera stayed quiet for a moment, avoiding eye contact as she rubbed her thumb along the side of Camille’s hand. She wasn’t sure what she was trying to look at—there wasn’t much of a crowd anymore, she wasn’t sure that there even was one to begin with, or if she herself just felt crowded and trapped. “It’s going to sound. So stupid.”
“As if you just running out of my place freaking out and swearing you would pay me back wasn’t stupid? Insisting it was your fault, when I was the one who left the bottle closer to you, saying that you would pay me back for all of it, what you drank, the ingredients to reverse it—you were sick. What if you were a different patient and I had done that?” Camille teased, a tiny smile pulling on her lips. “You didn’t have to do that, you know. We can work on getting the funds to change you back to—”
“No. I need to do this alone. You can say it wasn’t my fault all you want, but…” Sera closed her eyes, breathing a sigh into the neck of her scarf as she sank a little bit. “I practically lived there. I should have known better, or I should have called or texted and asked if one of the bottles you left out was actually for me… I wasn’t a normal patient. I was sleeping in your bed, Camille. Who does that?”
“Definitely not a normal patient. Our bed, though. You know I consider it ours.”
“Not the point.” Sera closed her eyes. “The point is: I wasted something you made. Something expensive that you made. And I’m going to pay you back. I just… Feel awful being around you until then. So… While I work on this, while I work on paying you back, I just… Need a little bit of space.”
Camille took a moment, processing what was said. She nodded slowly, and looked back to Sera’s face—though, it’s not like she looked back at her.
“Alright. I’ll give you that space. I’m just glad you were actually able to tell me now…”
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