A birthday crabble...a card/drabble if you will...Happy Birthday isis_whit!
The open window at her side let in the soft spring air. Peach blossoms drifted soft as feathers onto the quilt where she lay. The light around her was gentle as a blessing and made the room glow with highlights: off a silver goblet at her side, the edge of a stoneware vase full of nodding pink roses, the polished surface of the inlaid floor.
The young woman sighed and blinked as she realized she didn't feel nearly as weak as she had the last few days.
Smiling at the soft petals that lay on her like faint pink snow, she turned her head and looked into the room.
Arched windows, a table and chair near them on the other side of a fireplace. And a chair next to her bed, with a high back of some pale wood carved in the likeness of a crane lifting from the water.
Sleep beckoned once more like a friend and she closed her eyes peacefully.
Moments later, the soft rustle of cloth made her open them again.
A tall elf, his austere presence softened by a warm smile and the fall of deep brown hair on either side of his face, leaned over her.
His deep grey eyes glittered, reflecting the sunlight
A soft warm hand lay on her brow.
"You improve Mistress Isis. I am encouraged."
She smiled and slept again.
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(here's to a new beginning isis)
