Good morning, and welcome to my newest entry for the Weekend Writing Warriors bloghop. If you link what you see and are interested in participating, the rules are simple enough:
- Add your name and genre(s) to the most recent post on the WeWriWa site
- Post a link to the WeWriWa site on your blog/Sunday post
- Keep your excerpt 10 sentences or less (8-10, no more!)
- Visit other WeWriWa authors and experience their work
(Find a complete set on the WeWriWa page as well as links to pages of all the authors involved. Check it out.)
Today’s snippet follows directly on the heels of my last Weekend Writing Warrior entry A Scullery Maid. Because of … stuff, this entry has been lightly edited and creatively punctuated to fit the rules of the Bloghop.
Kiriina nodded, making no move to approach the stool to which she had been directed. “Lady Kessalan insists you attend her with all speed.” She turned and fairly danced up the stone steps, and into the bowels of the kitchens.
Visse sat for a moment and stared at the lime-washed wall of the stairway where Kiriina had just vanished. At last, she returned her attention to the bowl in her lap and the half-filled sausage in it. Better to beg pardon for being late than risk making her aunt’s dinner guest’s ill.
Careful to not break the delicate skin, she tied off the end of the pudding in her hand, then after laying it on the tray, balanced that on her knees long enough to also grab the bowl. When she was sure she had a solid grip on both, she rose. The tray she set on the stool she’d vacated while she took the remaining mix in her bowl and calmly dumped it into Kiriina’s waiting work.
Thank you for reading; I hope you enjoyed the snippet. Come back in two weeks for another bit of Courting A Swan Song
Great snippet. 🙂
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Haha, I love how precise and deliberate her movements are. I was not expecting that!
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Visse is nothing, if nth careful… 😉
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Catty!
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LOL! I was thinking more like “justified”.
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Very careful work from Visse. I hope Lady Kessalan appreciates it. Great snippet
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She may… but I suspect she’d never say so.
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Heh, interrupt her, will you? Fine, you get the work, lol. Good snippet, Eden.
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More like, run off and not even try to do your share… fine, you can do mine too. 😀
Glad you liked it, Siobhan!
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This sounds like an appropriate response to the sudden escape.
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That’s what I thought too. 🙂
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She;s not happy is she! 🙂
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I’d say not… 🙂
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I liked that.
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*happy dance*
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I goto a bit confused with all the female pronouns in the first paragraph, but got the gist by the time I got to the end. It kind of reminded me of my sister getting out of doing the dishes, and leaving me with the work.
I’d love more!
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Visse and Kiriina get along about the way you and your sister did… (well, maybe somewhat worse). They aren’t related though.
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A surprise at the end – not what I expected her to do. Tweeted.
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Glad I caught you by surprise… in a good way. Thanks for the tweet.
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I love the ‘tone’ of this story and the heroine’s calm self possession. Great snippet!
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Thanks! Target reached then… 🙂
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Great snippet. Well done!
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Entertaining snippet.
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Is she even going to help? But yeah, better be late that have them sick.
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Kiriina has no intention of helping Visse. That seemed pretty clear to Visse here
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Hope that little delay doesn’t get her trouble. I’m really enjoying these snippets.
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I hope so too. Thanks, Alexis
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I’m not graceful enough to handle that task. I’d have made a huge mess. Great snippet.
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I think, if she’d had the chance, Visse would have made a mess too… but Kiriina ran up the stairs too fast. 😉
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Take that! Very satisfying revenge, all calm and collected. 🙂
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Sometimes being able to stay calm is the best revenge… 😀
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Haha! I like it! Trying to get away without doing her share? Visse will teach her!
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Yes, yes, she will. These two young women are definitely about to put each other in their places for a while,
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