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- Joined
- Dec 9, 2010
- Location
- in your dreams
Elle was finishing up the last of her chores as the sky began to change color- the sun setting, and the air growing colder without it's warming light as the stars slowly winked into view. It was a beautiful night, she was outside pulling down washed laundry from the line and folding it carefully. The wind was starting to pick up, and she did not want the clothes to get blown away.
Elle was a beautiful young maiden, she had copper-colored hair and bright blue eyes that matched a deep sapphire. Her body was slender, but blessed with desireable curves- her family was dirt poor, but they managed enough that they were not shrivelled and malnourished, working hard enough to be luckier than some. Many in this little town didn't last the long winters. She was bare foot, wearing a dress that laced up the front in drab colors that made her vivid coloring pop all the more.
With the laundry pulled down, she went inside and kindled the fire. Her father was asleep near it with his boots on the hewn wood table, leaving a mess. She gently roused him to send him off to bed and cleaned up the mud before she stripped down to her sleeping dress and washed her face and hands in the basin of water in the wash area, humming to herself the whole time. This little house was not much, it was only one room... but she loved it. They were nestled right beside the forest, which to her was always quite the fascinating place- full of mystery and beauty like nothing else you could find. She always wanted to venture deep inside, but did not because she knew bad things happened to women who wandered off into the woods.
She looked out the small window a moment, watching the trees gently sway with the breeze before she turned and went to her little bed, little more than a pile of hay with a blanket on the floor... but it was still soft, and she had learned to find the musty smell of hay comforting as she drifted off to sleep. After a long day of work, it did not take long to fall into a deep, deep sleep.
Elle was a beautiful young maiden, she had copper-colored hair and bright blue eyes that matched a deep sapphire. Her body was slender, but blessed with desireable curves- her family was dirt poor, but they managed enough that they were not shrivelled and malnourished, working hard enough to be luckier than some. Many in this little town didn't last the long winters. She was bare foot, wearing a dress that laced up the front in drab colors that made her vivid coloring pop all the more.
With the laundry pulled down, she went inside and kindled the fire. Her father was asleep near it with his boots on the hewn wood table, leaving a mess. She gently roused him to send him off to bed and cleaned up the mud before she stripped down to her sleeping dress and washed her face and hands in the basin of water in the wash area, humming to herself the whole time. This little house was not much, it was only one room... but she loved it. They were nestled right beside the forest, which to her was always quite the fascinating place- full of mystery and beauty like nothing else you could find. She always wanted to venture deep inside, but did not because she knew bad things happened to women who wandered off into the woods.
She looked out the small window a moment, watching the trees gently sway with the breeze before she turned and went to her little bed, little more than a pile of hay with a blanket on the floor... but it was still soft, and she had learned to find the musty smell of hay comforting as she drifted off to sleep. After a long day of work, it did not take long to fall into a deep, deep sleep.