For the OC Evening Gown competition, phase "red". My original character Shaman Smoke Cat Watching. This is NOT part of the story. Unless I can come up with a new tale to use this doll. Hm.... ( #LongHomecoming#Pangaea )
"It's also extremely beautiful," Smoke Cat Watching continues, reaching out to take the dress, and hold it up to her shoulders. "And yes, of course. I thought it was already settled." She glances up at him; Jonas is still very serious. "The dress is not a bribe," he says, carefully laying it aside. "One kiss... is not a contract." "I know," the shaman answers simply, resting her wrists loosely crossed behind his neck. Finally the man smiles, strokes her hair. "Love?" he asks. "Love."
Tucking the coarse fabric away in his pack, Jonas changes the subject abruptly. "I bought you a dress." "Oh?" Smoke Cat remarks neutrally, "All by yourself?" His lips twitch, but he doesn't quite laugh. "Summer consulted about the size, so it should come close to fitting," and he shakes out a length of red silk. "This is..." the shaman surveys the floating sheer panels, the delicate beadwork, "impractical." "I know," Jonas says, smiling. Then, shyly, almost as an afterthought, "Marry me?"
"You've seen the portable hole and the screen that Summer Wind lived behind for so long in action, so that part isn't new. It's combined with a little scrying magic, and then, once the two screens are congruent and overlap, you implement the inside-of-the-bag-is-bigger-than-the-outside spell, and the ends expand to meet each other directly," Jonas says. "I see," replies Smoke Cat Watching, and she does. "Apparently I think of implementing magic differently from those who can use it," he adds.
As her family files out of her tent, discussing how soon Summer Wind will ride to Rolling Thunder clan to tell Springing Doe and Grey Owl the news, Smoke Cat whispers to Jonas, "Someone actually paid you for an idea?" He grins. "Strange, isn't it? But yes, they paid me exceptionally well, in fact. Of course, in all modesty, it's really a very good idea." "Perhaps you should tell me how it works," she says. Jonas explains as he takes down the sheet with the hole and folds it back up again.
Thanks very much NightOwl, and thanks to you again, Falak!!! I have a few ideas that are cooking in my head... I hope they don't disappoint after this!
She looks lovely, I've been following your river wedding story, it's brilliant! So full of surprises and turns. And it's not an every day thing to see a shaman dress up like this...XD
