A/N: Prompt A change in the weather; originally posted 4/5/07.
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Her wedding day dawned gloriously bright, sea the perfect turquoise calm of an idyllic Caribbean morning, hot sunlight setting cloth-of-gold aglow. All the forenoon, as maids bathed and dressed, laced and perfumed her, she heard footmen carrying tables and china into the garden, and still the day promised warmth and light. It was as the first guests arrived that the wind began, deceptively light to begin with but swiftly strengthening; and only as her maid was fastening the long veil that she exclaimed in distress at the heavy-darkling sky.
Elizabeth is standing in the garden alone when the rain comes.