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kiramaru7Title: The Perfect Leaf
Author: kira
Table: Autumn: Images (Holiday Prompts)
Prompt: Image 11; a maple leaf
Fandom: Original
Characters: Lady Edwina Harrington
Word count: 291
Rating: G
Summary: Edwina finds the perfect leaf…
Author’s note: Special thanks to my beta Kat for pinking this. Please also note that this was also written for Holiday Prompts Autumn: Images table and Madrona Project.
Edwina strolled through her back garden. She loved the soft crunch of her boots on the leaves that littered the ground and the faint rustle of her skirts as they dragged the rest. Autumn had become her favorite season as it mirrored the death all around her in a way that winter could not. It was cold and damp, and most people had retreated indoors, leaving her favorite haunts, Madrona’s many parks, empty. Not that they were really devoid of all life, for Edwina often saw fat and sassy squirrels in their search for nuts, birds flitting through bare tree branches, and deer silently going about their lives like russet ghosts.
While she walked, Edwina studied the ground, looking for the perfect leaf. Her friends may have been into collecting and pressing flowers, but she preferred autumn leaves. Edwina loved finding the odd bit of color in the grey mass of dried up leaves that covered her back garden. Like now when she spotted a deep red nestled amongst the grey. She knelt and picked up a newly fallen leaf. It started as a brilliant gold near the stem, spreading outwards in oranges and reds, and ending in the deep, dark red at the tip that she had spotted.
“Perfect.”
Edwina stood up, and gathering her skirts in her hand, she headed back to the manor house. This leaf was definitely one for her collection and she looked forward to getting out her flower press and pressing it. She even had the perfect frame for it and a spot on her wall next to the framed exotic bug a friend, knowing how much she adored strange curiosities, had given her last year for her birthday. She smiled as she stepped inside.
Author: kira
Table: Autumn: Images (Holiday Prompts)
Prompt: Image 11; a maple leaf
Fandom: Original
Characters: Lady Edwina Harrington
Word count: 291
Rating: G
Summary: Edwina finds the perfect leaf…
Author’s note: Special thanks to my beta Kat for pinking this. Please also note that this was also written for Holiday Prompts Autumn: Images table and Madrona Project.
Edwina strolled through her back garden. She loved the soft crunch of her boots on the leaves that littered the ground and the faint rustle of her skirts as they dragged the rest. Autumn had become her favorite season as it mirrored the death all around her in a way that winter could not. It was cold and damp, and most people had retreated indoors, leaving her favorite haunts, Madrona’s many parks, empty. Not that they were really devoid of all life, for Edwina often saw fat and sassy squirrels in their search for nuts, birds flitting through bare tree branches, and deer silently going about their lives like russet ghosts.
While she walked, Edwina studied the ground, looking for the perfect leaf. Her friends may have been into collecting and pressing flowers, but she preferred autumn leaves. Edwina loved finding the odd bit of color in the grey mass of dried up leaves that covered her back garden. Like now when she spotted a deep red nestled amongst the grey. She knelt and picked up a newly fallen leaf. It started as a brilliant gold near the stem, spreading outwards in oranges and reds, and ending in the deep, dark red at the tip that she had spotted.
“Perfect.”
Edwina stood up, and gathering her skirts in her hand, she headed back to the manor house. This leaf was definitely one for her collection and she looked forward to getting out her flower press and pressing it. She even had the perfect frame for it and a spot on her wall next to the framed exotic bug a friend, knowing how much she adored strange curiosities, had given her last year for her birthday. She smiled as she stepped inside.
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