Haunted House 39: Honest
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aldersprigFirst: A story featuring a male keeper and a female Kept.
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Once again, Mélanie was in the wagon, this time back in the front. Once again, she was leaving the House behind. She waved as they left; two of the shutters on the second floor clacked back at her in what she was going to assume was a wave.
The horses seemed to like the trip to town. Their ears were pointed forward and their clip-clopping hooves seemed happy, like they were going someplace they knew and liked.
Jasper caught Mélanie looking more than once. “You can still talk to them if you want,” he encouraged her, the third time he’d smiled at her as she’d turned away blushing. “They like the apples the carter in town feeds them, I think, but I don’t really talk well to them.”
“I can?” She leaned forward happily and muttered a Working, slipping into their contented minds. They liked going this way. This way came with happy places. They was way easy, and the Human was happy when he left here.
She chuckled. “Aw. They like you, I think. They like you being happy.”
read on…
Previous: Upset
🌳
Once again, Mélanie was in the wagon, this time back in the front. Once again, she was leaving the House behind. She waved as they left; two of the shutters on the second floor clacked back at her in what she was going to assume was a wave.
The horses seemed to like the trip to town. Their ears were pointed forward and their clip-clopping hooves seemed happy, like they were going someplace they knew and liked.
Jasper caught Mélanie looking more than once. “You can still talk to them if you want,” he encouraged her, the third time he’d smiled at her as she’d turned away blushing. “They like the apples the carter in town feeds them, I think, but I don’t really talk well to them.”
“I can?” She leaned forward happily and muttered a Working, slipping into their contented minds. They liked going this way. This way came with happy places. They was way easy, and the Human was happy when he left here.
She chuckled. “Aw. They like you, I think. They like you being happy.”
read on…
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Date: 2019-03-06 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-12 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-08 05:16 am (UTC)I also like how Mélanie feels — I can't quite call it "comfortable", but perhaps safe? — safe enough with him to not merely contemplate being bad, but actually telling him the form that the bad will take. Though with all this considering being bad, I'm wondering why she refused to be released.
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Date: 2019-07-12 01:27 pm (UTC)but on the plus side, that means there's character development!
It's hard to contemplate being released when you're Kept and, in addition to that, she feels safe and wanted. Safe and wanted is hard to give up.