It's after nightfall, and the children are indoors, asleep. Mrs. Hedgeworthy, Loki's housekeeper, is staying the night, but he is grateful to find he is less desperate for the backup than he was before he left.
Outside the cottage, the meadow is all long grass in shades of tan and fawn and brown, and every breeze makes the seedheads whisper together. Loki likes this weather; he is sorry to have missed spring and summer, but the promise of winter is reassuring.
for Ravage
It's after nightfall, and the children are indoors, asleep. Mrs. Hedgeworthy, Loki's housekeeper, is staying the night, but he is grateful to find he is less desperate for the backup than he was before he left.
Outside the cottage, the meadow is all long grass in shades of tan and fawn and brown, and every breeze makes the seedheads whisper together. Loki likes this weather; he is sorry to have missed spring and summer, but the promise of winter is reassuring.