Tarot Beach Party

[lady_moon]

There are those of the tarot who know how to set up for a party.

Ruin had spent most of the afternoon building the bonfire. He has carefully made it much in the way he would have with the villagers of his mortal life when they would celebrate the harvests. Charity, Unity, and Skill had spent most of the day setting up food, both their sorts of foods and the sorts the sentients would be expecting.

Moon watched it all with rapt fascination, her eyes on the marshmallows Skill told her firmly she isn't allowed to touch yet. But they're white and fluffy looking and Moon is curious. Mons barks at her, warning Skill, and Moon is shooed off.

It's Fortune who puts out blankets, spread all over the beach area for everyone to use. Moon watches her family set up for a party, for guests... real guests who are coming simply to come instead of for answers. She watches Fortune set down a large stack of very warm looking towels, and she grins.

Swimming. Damian will like the swimming.

Her wolves run up and down the beach in excitement, and Moon knows it's time.

Disappearing back to Milliways, she sets it up so people can come and go as they need to, pleased with herself and her family.

Comments

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful: the night, the party, the castle in the distance, Moon's world...Moon. He's deliriously happy right now, and that happiness is stirring feelings inside him that he's uncertain of, but oh how he wants them.

Her hand is warm in his, and he finds himself looking in turn from the beautiful world around them to her.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon doesn't peek into his thoughts, only knows the happy feelings radiating from her wolf. She smiles, resting her head against his arm as they walk.

"I'm glad you're happy," she says softly. "I like you happy, Jason."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He releases her hand and curls his arm around her waist.

"I like you happy, too, Moon."

He walks a bit further with her, struggling with himself in his head but not sure why. But he smiles all the same, holding her close as they walk.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

It doesn't take all that long before they do come up to the massive, wide open doors to the castle. She giggles as she rushes ahead, running up the front stairs eagerly.

"It took us ages to come to a compromise on this thing," she says, glancing over her shoulder. "Spent a decade just discussing the battlements."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason snickers, following her up the stairs, hesitating only slightly at the massive doors. "I'd be impressed regardless: this is my first castle. So did you make it a grand compromise, or did you get your own parts?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"It was a grand compromise," Moon says, motioning Jason inside. "But it's home, and we're happy. Lots of room. Skill keeps insisting we bring things here to make it ours, but my stuff keeps getting put into odd places."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

"Like what kind of places?" he asks, following her inside and eyeing the surroundings. He almost feels like one of the cats the way he wants to lurk around and explore.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon hurries over to an alcove covered by a large tapestry and pulls it back, revealing an impossibly huge Hello Kitty doll.

"These sorts of places."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

And see Jason fall back with a surprised shout.

"Jesus Christ!"

That's one huge-ass Hello Kitty. At least it's not on her bed? Talk about a cock-block.

He tries for a serious face. "I have no clue as to why they'd put that behind a tapestry."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

Moon laughs, wrapping her arms around her waist as the tapestry falls back into place.

"You're very nice to say that."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He hugs her back, chuckling. "Any time, honey."

There's a sigh of relief as the tapestry falls back. Scary fucking cat...

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"Is there something in particular you'd like to see?"

There were the lower rooms, filled with all the portraits and art and odds and ends... and then there were the upper rooms, each one for one of the tarot.

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason shrugs and gives her a quick kiss. "Your house. What do you want to show off?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

She drags him through some of the lower rooms until they stand near a large hearth. Over the hearth is a portrait of Moon, dressed as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, in a perfect fourth position. Her hair is carefully pinned up, her neck long and arched, her expression one of sleepy dreaming.

"Ruin made me come home so Skill could paint me when I danced."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason blinks in surprise at the painting. "Oh, wow..."

She looks so beautiful...

"This is amazing, Moon. Absolutely beautiful." He tears his eyes from the painting to smile at her. "You never did bring those toe-shoes to dance for me."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"No, but I did bring them," Moon says, staring at the portrait a bit longer. "I danced a little for Damian."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He moves behind her, snuggling up to her back as he looks back up at the painting.

"You should dance more. I know how much you love it." He grins, nuzzling her ear. "Any place to dance here?"

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"Yes," she says with a smile, turning her face so he can nose her cheek. "Do you want to see me dance, Jason? I can even put on a dress, or just put my toe-shoes on and dance as I am."

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

"I'd love to see you dance," he murmurs softly. "You wear whatever you like: I just want to see you dance."

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

"Then come up to my room."

She heads for the main stairwell, leading him up past the tapestries, even hers, until they hit the fifth landing. She takes a left at the landing and passes three doors. The fourth door on the right she opens, stepping into an oversized suit decorated in pastels -- blue, pink, purple -- with white accents. The floor is wooden, one wall full of mirrors.

It's very feminine without being girly, with the wall opposite the mirrors full of windows.

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

He stops in the doorway, looking around appreciatively. Mirrors. He can dig mirrors.

"Pretty room," he comments as he steps in. He moves through the room, leaning against her bed and waiting with a warm smile.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

It's a big bed with lots of pillows.

But no stuffed animals.

She digs in her wardrobe and comes out with her toe-shoes and a simple white shift. Moon wriggles into the dress before sitting herself on the floor and putting on the toe pads before stuffing her feet into the shoes and tying the ribbons up her ankles.

Moon stands up, going through some simple stretching exercises of her feet in the shoes, the moves easily recalled and moved through. You would never know that she forgot anything about this dancing as she prepares to do just that for Jason.

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Jason doesn't comment, but simply watches her. He can't get over how beautiful she is, and her dancing is unlike anything he's ever seen. She makes the ballet they went to see look like it was danced by eight-year olds.

It occurs to him that he's never been with anyone who even remotely shared his love of dancing, and a smile spreads across his face as he sits back and enjoys her dance.

Re: The Forest

[lady_moon]

When she's done and knows her feet are ready, she goes to a music box in the corner. She lifts the lid, selects the tune she wants, and then stands in the middle of the large space between her bed and the mirrors in second position. As the music starts, she begins to dance.

The movements are long, elegant, her feet up en pointe most of the time. She can't manage the huge leaps in the confined space, but she does do some of the smaller ones. It's an improvised piece, utilizing every space on the floor, her eyes open, hair loose, her arms gracefully moving with the music and her feet.

It shows in each movement of feet, arms, and body how much she loves dancing, how much time she's devoted to it over millennia of time. It is her passion, something that madness and time and power has never stripped from her.

Re: The Forest

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

It's something that can tame madness, in so many ways. That warm feeling he'd been fighting is back, and he doesn't have it in him to fight anymore. How can he?

And it's quiet at last in his mind, with nothing but the sweet sound of her music box as she dances.

He's smiling softly as her dance ends, so moved by her performance that he is still at the bed and waiting for her to look back to him.