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Post by Rhys Kelly on Jan 25, 2022 6:42:15 GMT 7
“My son, Rhys. We all believe the brilliance of thought is born in the darkness, but never give yourself to the god who answers in the dark.” He was around six or seven at the time. He remembered his mother’s advice while caressing his dirty blond hair, his baby sister slept soundless near his bed. The room they still shared even until the third was born. “When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking with you.” He couldn’t understand the words that time, even until that day he still couldn’t fully grasp what his mother meant. However for some reason he felt it, a dawn in his heart. It ain’t love or what he thought was. — or, if there was any other definition of love? Rhys understands the romantic side of love, he had that before with some girls back at school. Puppy love they said, but that was it. It faded as they grew old and apart. There was love for his parents and siblings, but that one came in part of being blood bound with them. This kind of dawn was neither blood bound or romantic. It was yearning and longing which Rhys himself failed to understand. Nineteen years old didn’t make him become a wise man, yet. Write me when you get home. Take care. The last sentence of his letter that he sent for weeks already. The owl might have taken even longer to arrive or maybe it needed several owls to send a letter to another continent. He was so close to praying after the sun went down for a friend he missed the most. He put the kettle on, lit some candles, and a music player let a slow swing from the forties start cheered the room. He tried to create a little happiness in his own place, alone, again.
never pray to the gods that answer after dark
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Post by Ephraim Pickering on Jan 25, 2022 15:43:45 GMT 7
He'd been away from the country for quite some time. No, not on a holiday trip, he didn't have that kind of money. He was away on a job as usual, but this time he was loaned away to a Gringotts branch somewhere in Africa. He wasn't special or anything, but his senior saw this as a great learning opportunity, and without much fanfare, he was whisked away there one day.
That was several weeks ago. Africa was hot, way hotter than what he was used to, and the sun seem like it was directly over his head at all times. He'd sent a letter to Kelly a day after he arrived since he hadn't had a chance to before he departed and Kelly had replied with a pretty direct message tacked on it.
Well, now he was home, still in the garb he'd gotten used to wearing there, a long flowy tunic which was perfectly suited to the drier and hotter environment. They look so out of place in the Diagon Alley Gringotts, but he couldn't care less about that. After he bid his senior goodbye, he headed to the nearest public fireplace he could get to.
Kelly told him to write after he got home, but he had something better in mind. With that, he chucked some Floo powder into the fire and as soon as it turned green he called his destination out loud.
Kelly's place.
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Post by Rhys Kelly on Jan 30, 2022 7:55:46 GMT 7
Wasn’t it a little odd? In the year where war was rampant on every side of the globe and yet the song was so vividly cheerful, it felt like a drug to forget things that happened to reality. In a way he understands, at this moment, he just wants to forget his loneliness and this kind of music was his coping mechanism.
The water boiled, the tea brewed, he splashed a dash of milk until the dark brown liquid turned into a cloudy one. By reflex, he pulled his wand as soon as he heard a tumb from the chimney.
Stupified was his initial idea, well at first, until he found a familiar figure ducked and revealed himself. Familiar figure but it wasn’t in familiar siluet, but he knew the shape of the face so well. His frown turned to smile and the rush of blood to the head showed by the bloomed on his face. Without asking permission — just like the figure who just came to his premise — he jumped, hugged tight for a couple of seconds before releasing it.
“What? Why don’t you write to me first, you thick?”
He prepared nothing. Pickle told him it would be a couple of days which later became a couple of weeks and yet suddenly the friend he missed so much just chimed in from his chimney.
“And what on earth are you wearing? I know you fancy a man but I don’t know you fancy wearing a dress.”
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Post by Ephraim Pickering on Jan 30, 2022 14:26:52 GMT 7
Kelly seemed surprised by his arrival, because of course, he hadn't sent any news over that he was coming. Still coughing from the fireplace soot, he immediately found himself holding an armful of Kelly as the man flung himself towards him and hugged him tightly. He responded by wrapping his arm, too, around Kelly's torso, still a bit surprised with the whole situation.
"I just got to England!" he protested. "I haven't had a chance to send a letter yet."
It probably said something about him, that the first place he visited wasn't his or his parents', but Kelly's.
"It's not a dress, it's what men wear there!" he explained. "I forgot what it's called but everyone wears this there. Weather's completely different." With that, he stepped back to take a good look at Kelly. He never realized how much he'd grown to enjoy the man's presence in his life, to have his company from time to time, and when it suddenly stopped it was like a piece of him was missing.
But he's here now. All of him, complete with tunic, hat, and all his travel gears.
"I wish I could come back sooner, but it wasn't possible so I just go straight here once I got back."
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Post by Rhys Kelly on Jan 31, 2022 1:05:18 GMT 7
“Got to England?” Just arrived? He patted the man’s cheeks and hair since there was some charcoal blackening some part of Pickle’s face before he got another cup for the tea. The volume of the music turned down from the record player in the corner of the room, the swing song sounded a little bit more cheerful when he realised he wasn’t alone that day.
“Yeah of course all men wear those,” he held his chuckles, although it was true still not changed Rhys’ point about the garment that Pickle wore was more like a dress than an attire for men. “Do you enjoy it there?” another tea brewed, he swung his wand on the couch where those pillows and the seat puffed, looks more comfortable than before. Eyes looked at Pickle then towards the sofa as he kept in the pantry, taking out some biscuits and milk.
“It might be normal there but here you looked like someone who roams around in Knockturn Alley.” A cheeky smile formed on his face. The sepia coloured scene turns into technicolour, Rhys was on his toes preparing everything to make Pickle more comfortable.
“Why?” Easily he brought everything to the console table in front of the sofa. “Why here? Why not go home first? Don’t you think your parents missed you?”
They must be, because I am.
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Post by Ephraim Pickering on Jan 31, 2022 1:26:27 GMT 7
"Mm-hmm," he hummed in confirmation, then let Kelly pat his face and hair. There must be some dust there, so he just let Kelly do it to his heart's content while trying to ignore his own. After he had been sufficiently cleaned, Kelly then begin the process of brewing another cup of tea for him. The sofa looked so inviting after Kelly fluffed them up, something he never bothered to do in his own place. He let his backpack fall to the floor by the end of the sofa with a dull thud, then he followed by sitting there. "Hmm, not really. Too hot, too dry, too much sand and dust, and not enough rain." And there's no you there to keep me company, he silently added. At Kelly's comment about Knockturn Alley, he just shook his head. "My parents missed me, but they can survive another day. I went to a school in Scotland for seven years, a few weeks in Africa is not going to change anything. Oh! I brought you something." It was something he saw on a stroll to the local market and he picked up almost without thinking. He rummaged his backpack—spelled to give him extra storage space, of course—and presented it to Kelly. "Hope you like it."
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Post by Rhys Kelly on Jan 31, 2022 1:51:20 GMT 7
He brought his own cup to his face, the steam warmed the skin although it was summer and the sun still shone bright outside, but his smile was brighter as soon as Pickle pulled out an exotic lantern from his rucksack.
It seemed to be made by some kind of metal, the colour black. He believed he knew about this and if he was right the room would be glimmered by fireflies like twinkles. He swung his wand, pulled the blinder to block the rays from outside and it was true.
The room immediately glimmered by fickle lights inside the lantern thus made the room warm rather than hot, more comforting than boiling. “This is so beautiful, of course I like it. My sister will be jealous if she knew I have this. She always wants this.”
He placed the lantern on the top of his small bookcase. “She saw this in a shop in Edinburgh but dad said no, I didn’t remember why.” He sat again right beside Pickle, his head resting leaned further back, he looked at the ceiling that looked like a universe filled with stars.
“It looked beautiful, didn't it? Thank you!” Without him noticing a kitten slipped from the window, asked for their attention.
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Post by Ephraim Pickering on Jan 31, 2022 2:04:09 GMT 7
He swore he could see Kelly's face becoming brighter as he pulled the lantern out and gave it to the man. It was truly a beautiful lantern, and when he bought it he imagined if it was on it would flicker and send lights dancing in the room through the patterned glass. And just his luck, it did do that and Kelly did like them, and immediately put it on top of a bookshelf and he was able to see the lantern in action.
It wasn't cheap, but the price was well worth Kelly's delight.
"It is, glad you like it," he replied, smiling back, and was about to reach for his cup of tea when he heard a small sound from the corner. He frowned. "You hear that?"
He looked around in search, and through the dim light cast by the lantern, he found the source. A tiny kitten who had gotten in from God knows where, looking afraid and tried to retreat in a corner. Cup of tea abandoned for a while, he got up and approached the kitten.
"Aw, poor kitty," he cooed and scooped up the kitten in his hands. It fits perfectly in his palm. Holding the kitten securely against his chest, he brought the kitten with him to the sofa. "Do you have some milk for him?"
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