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Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow ([personal profile] ikissdhimbck) wrote2012-09-13 01:24 am

OOM: Room #100, for Tommy Gavin

[following this and later this:]


It's late.

So late, in fact, it's practically the time she gets herself out of bed in the morning.

Her body is humming with the rhythm of packed earth, drumbeats under thundering hooves. Her face is wind-chapped and cerise. She spent a long time with Beaut, beating every trail in the dark with the stars overhead like millions of laughing eyes, sparkling and winking while she runs. She's chilled and stiff, but her tears have long since stopped and she's almost found her center once more.

She's grateful when she reaches the last step, turning in the direction of her room.