Sieglinde will later be embarrassed to think of how much time she's spent dumbstruck, but growing up in a single, isolated village, burdened with the responsibility of lordship and the creation of the ultimate magic... there are still so many things that are "firsts".
This sort of frolicking... merrymaking... even with the oppressive threat hanging over the heads of the human population, they can have something like this...
Sieglinde's gaze lingers somewhat covetously on a ring of local children dancing together, dropping down to her long dress hem and then back up to the paper she'd been given, writing utensil in hand and trying to think of what to write- it was only proper to participate when she'd been invited to...
But her gaze keeps moving back to the other children, even though she doesn't make any movement to try and join them.]
D ⚝ PASS THE GROG
[Sieglinde is not used to being treated like a child (no matter how she sometimes longed to be). Which might explain why she looks very put upon, straining to try and look over the counter of a street stall properly, weak ankles trembling with the effort of tip-toes, mouth comically down in a frown and cheeks puffed out slightly in an unintended pout.
Overheard-]
I do not understand. If you have beer, why will you not sell it to me?
[Said the small girl clutching a large pie that she... surely wasn't planning on eating alone. Right?]
E ⚝ BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
[It's beautiful.
Sieglinde's gaze is transfixed on the sky, eyes wide in wonder as she takes in the sight of the lanterns rising slowly towards the heavens- until the lights go out.
The wind almost blew her hennin from her head, and Sieglinde clutched at it while ducking down to try and stay out of the way, avoid the stampede of movement, panicked voices, screams-
She clutches at the nearest steady thing, but then the lights are back on, but there are words and an image- one she immediately recognizes from her tomes, the depictions of the supernatural beasts and creatures of the world.]
Sieglinde Sullivan | Kuroshitsuji | OPEN
[She's never seen anything like this.
Sieglinde will later be embarrassed to think of how much time she's spent dumbstruck, but growing up in a single, isolated village, burdened with the responsibility of lordship and the creation of the ultimate magic... there are still so many things that are "firsts".
This sort of frolicking... merrymaking... even with the oppressive threat hanging over the heads of the human population, they can have something like this...
Sieglinde's gaze lingers somewhat covetously on a ring of local children dancing together, dropping down to her long dress hem and then back up to the paper she'd been given, writing utensil in hand and trying to think of what to write- it was only proper to participate when she'd been invited to...
But her gaze keeps moving back to the other children, even though she doesn't make any movement to try and join them.]
D ⚝ PASS THE GROG
[Sieglinde is not used to being treated like a child (no matter how she sometimes longed to be). Which might explain why she looks very put upon, straining to try and look over the counter of a street stall properly, weak ankles trembling with the effort of tip-toes, mouth comically down in a frown and cheeks puffed out slightly in an unintended pout.
Overheard-]
I do not understand. If you have beer, why will you not sell it to me?
[Said the small girl clutching a large pie that she... surely wasn't planning on eating alone. Right?]
E ⚝ BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
[It's beautiful.
Sieglinde's gaze is transfixed on the sky, eyes wide in wonder as she takes in the sight of the lanterns rising slowly towards the heavens- until the lights go out.
The wind almost blew her hennin from her head, and Sieglinde clutched at it while ducking down to try and stay out of the way, avoid the stampede of movement, panicked voices, screams-
She clutches at the nearest steady thing, but then the lights are back on, but there are words and an image- one she immediately recognizes from her tomes, the depictions of the supernatural beasts and creatures of the world.]
Chimera...