open | summer came and passed away

[coquettish_trees]

WHO: Alexandrie, Byerly, Loki, and whomstever else falls in~
WHAT: an open, and a little collection of other things
WHEN: Wibbly wobbly present time
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: ♥

It is, decidedly, shawl weather. Here at the docks, where Alexandrie is painting the pale autumn sky over the wind-whipped greying waters that turn colder every day, it's stepped across the line all the way into cloaks. Every so often she shifts and stamps her feet to warm herself, but the Lady seems more determined to put down the last brush stroke than she is to give in and go inside for the day.

It seems you've caught her right at that moment, for after a final touch and a long moment of staring she lowers her brush and sighs in satisfaction before turning to pack everything away. Or, fumbling, to try to.

"Would you mind unbuckling that case for me?" she turns and asks with a lightly amused smile, "I am afraid my hand has gone numb."

Comments

[thereneverwas]

"I'm afraid it'll be worse off with my help," Barrow sighs with a fond little smile, making no move to grab the case-- the cold has had its own effect on him, a fact Lexie ought to know well, being the one who was there when the problem began.
"Looks lovely, though," he adds, nodding toward her painting. "'s it for anything in particular? Anyone?"

[coquettish_trees]

"Perhaps with the two of us working together we might at least manage to knock it over and spill everything into the ocean," Alexandrie replies with a fondness of her own, her eyes twinkling at him. "Then, if it is displeased with the work it has commissioned from me, it shall have everything it needs to paint itself."

Hello, Barrow.

[thereneverwas]

Breaking into a grin, Barrow gives a chuckle.

"Most problems can be solved by chucking them in the sea," he muses, "at least for a while."