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    Thread: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)
Post: RE: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)

Cali picked herself up from the flowerbed, dusting herself off a little. Her legs were stiff from sitting cross-legged in the cold for so long. She sat herself on the bench beside him, and listened wi...
Calliope Greater Moscow 7 708 01-30-2026, 10:02 AM
    Thread: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)
Post: RE: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)

He offered his name and she smiled pleasantly in response. Cali’s hands rested lightly on her knees, and the breath puffed from her mouth in a little ice cloud. She made no move to get up from the gro...
Calliope Greater Moscow 7 708 01-26-2026, 12:02 PM
    Thread: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)
Post: RE: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)

Cali opened a single eye, then both, squinting in the winter light. A man stood a respectful distance away on the garden path, bundled against the cold. She recognised him from the soundbath, and was ...
Calliope Greater Moscow 7 708 01-08-2026, 03:45 PM
    Thread: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)
Post: Winter Gardens (Sanctuary)

The Brotherhood grounds lay hushed beneath winter. Snow pressed everything into gentler shapes: hedges softened to pale humps, bare branches etched like charcoal against a washed-out sky, stone paths ...
Calliope Greater Moscow 7 708 01-03-2026, 12:24 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Cali had been musing aloud rather than being serious, but when Liam took up the line of thought her interest was genuinely piqued. She found the idea excited her, and for now Nora was completely forgo...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 09-11-2025, 02:34 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

She was distracted by the notion, expression full of contemplation and wonder. Liam asked the obvious question as more or less the same thing occurred to Cali, but she hadn’t sensed anything – or she ...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 04-24-2025, 12:05 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Nora fled, followed closely by the companion who had been sharing her table. Cali’s expression flickered, perhaps in hurt, but it was soon shed. Sometimes those who came seeking did not find the answe...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 04-16-2025, 12:04 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Liam gave her a look that made her laugh. So he was serious, and in that case the things he said concerned her, but she knew better than anyone the natural stubbornness in the Haart genes. Cali would ...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 04-11-2025, 01:33 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Her eyes widened a little at the edges. Clearly such grandeur as that had never occurred to her. Could it be so simple as the way she made the plants flourish? Ultimately Cali would serve in whatever ...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 04-05-2025, 04:56 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Liam’s reaction made her beam. She didn’t seem to mind the outburst, or perhaps just didn’t notice; when she was focused like this, the rest of the world melted away just a little, and right now it wa...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 01-26-2025, 01:20 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

“Of course!” Despite the circumstances Cali was pleased Liam would want her to come with him for something like that. Not that she could blame him for being wary of Gideon’s kindness, it was usually d...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 01-18-2025, 09:54 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Cali pondered it with fascination. Not her brother’s escapade, obviously, but just about that kind of experience. It wasn’t necessarily because it was something she wanted for herself – she’d never th...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 01-17-2025, 10:12 AM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

The way Liam scraped his chair along the floor probably announced to the whole cafe that he had a burning secret to share. A smile flickered to Cali’s lips as she leaned on the table between them, her...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 01-15-2025, 08:14 PM
    Thread: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)
Post: RE: Coffee or Tea (Artskaf)

Cali pressed the lid of Liam’s laptop down, and placed the plate on top instead. His favourite pastry sat on top like a prize jewel, which by her smile she certainly considered it to be. No tech, that...
Calliope Place of Enlightenment 34 29,017 01-12-2025, 12:59 PM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Do not squander it. The words settled tightly around her heart, though uncertainty lingered. Except she could not fathom the Luminar being wrong about it. He moved on to the quiet Seeker before she co...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 01-08-2025, 09:59 PM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Cali resolved herself to silence because, ultimately, they were talking about the Veil, and it was not her place to speak before the Luminar about something she had no capacity for. Sámiel’s words had...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 12-30-2024, 11:27 AM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Cali stared up with reverence as the Luminar positioned her within the Chamber of Echoes. The lightest touch at her shoulder filled her with warmth and deepened the breath in her chest. She had taken ...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 12-29-2024, 04:00 PM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Whilst he spoke to their gathering, Quillon’s gaze ushered a third Seeker into their midst. Picking up on the subtle cue, Cali’s shift of posture was natural to include the new stranger. Her smile was...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 12-28-2024, 05:58 PM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Cali laughed at the comic book reference, taking no offense at what some here might have taken as irreverence. She had never seen the point of elitism when it came to the sacred, preferring faith to b...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 11-30-2024, 11:01 PM
    Thread: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant Flame]
Post: RE: Sight Seeing [The Sanctuary of the Ascendant F...

Cali accepted the statement that Ascendancy had brought Mia here with certainty, like it was a natural and understandable pull. She was quiet, leaving the other woman to work through her own conclusio...
Calliope Greater Moscow 41 26,083 11-08-2024, 07:10 PM