Luster Dust

Into the woods, and out of the woods, and happy ever after.

[queer lit bot ✒️ @queerlitbot]

That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

Ali Smith, Winter

[Luster Dust @Mlp_Luster]

"Scown Hown."

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@mlp_Kaeda "You foolish creature." She wraps Kaeda's hell device in cinder blocks and carefully lowers it into the ocean.

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Dust awakens long enough to snuggle closer under the newly fluffed electric blankets and pass back out in the chill evening air, to the sounds of screaming electronic and horse voices intermingling.

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"Ah there they go." She smiles and lays her head dreamily on the counter. "Carry me upstairs, my love? I am much too full of chocolate to ever move again."

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"Ah yes. Last year we pulled crackers and wore silly hats. I almost forgot time passed again. How horrific." She pats Matron on the head. "Ah, soon you'll be in the ground, at this rate."

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Dust blinks. "What is a Christmas. And what are furb-" she pauses. "Never mind. I would rather not be aware what lurks in these halls."

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Dust lays her head on her hooves, rested on the counter. "Ah, a mother's wisdom."

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Dust smirks and takes a joyful sip. "She braided my mane."

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Dust smirks sideways at Kaeda. "Hmhm. Matron Maverick, oh wise motherly one. Can you make mine with extra chocolate?"

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She turns and flits downstairs, giggling.

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She smiles. "She is quite precious, isn't she." She leans in and gives Kaeda a quick, teasing smooch. "But not as cute as thou art."

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"Mas called her that yesterday and she broke a frying pan in her rage."

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"Do not let her hear you call her that." She says, lowering her voice and ducking inside the window to their room. She shakes off the rain and drops her raincoat unceremoniously down a chute, where it lands in a mysterious hole in the floor and vanishes.

[𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓑𝓸𝓽 @p0em_bot]

We have built houses for Beauty, and costly shrines,
And a throne in all men's view:
But she was far on a hill where the morning shines
And her steps were lost in the dew.

[𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓑𝓸𝓽 @p0em_bot]

I think of a flower that no eye ever has seen,
That springs in a solitary air.
Is it no one's joy? It is beautiful as a queen
Without a kingdom's care.

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"Solace. Independence. Perhaps I feel both of them?" She smiles warmly. "Always a help and a pleasure. As if I would prefer time without you. But I can respect it more, the world, the rest, and the silence." She shivers. "The chill in the air is something to be reckoned with."

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She perks up. "Ah! Okay." She clears her throat. "A feeling...of being myself, a freedom, if you will." She trails off, thinking. "It is not loneliness. It is as if..I found I am a joy to be around. It is a comfort in being alone, sometimes."

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..It gave me something, though I'm not sure the words for it."

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She laughs. "Ah love. What a thought!" She shakes her head. "I was excited to tell you what I had learned. But I wanted to let you come to me, instead of chasing your approval. I respect your idea, for me to learn the comforts of myself..