Winter |Korin|

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Tamakazura no Sai) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:41:40 GMT

"His fault!" Sai exclaimed defensively, holding up his hands. "It's always his fault - you know me - I barely drink, if I can help it!" Sai's tolerance, or lack thereof, was something of a joke between Korin and Sai - the very first time they had met, all those months ago, had ended in the worst hangover of his life for Sai. New to his position, untutored in the ways of political life, completely useless the moment he was so much as shown the sake - he had...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Minobe Korin) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:29:50 GMT

Korin had never been particularly observant. He was poor at reading other people's body language, but had a very few specialised areas where he had more of an eye for detail. He had very highly developed detectors for other people's anger, but never knew why they were feeling like that, or how to use the knowledge. He could tell to the minute when Aiko's next demand for sweets would be. And, after growing up in a house of nine sisters, he was somehow more attuned to noticing how...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Tamakazura no Sai) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:24:23 GMT

"You knew?" Sai asked, surprised. "How did you know? I didn't know." Korin never ceased to amaze him - it must be written in a book somewhere. Sai himself had had no more clue than Rou - not that, he justified it to himself, he saw much of Fei Lin, if he could help it. She was one of those women who had always fundamentally embarrassed him. He sometimes suspected that she did it on purpose.

"It seems everybody apart from Rou and I knew,"...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Minobe Korin) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:52:53 GMT

"What do I think of it?" Korin said, in slight surprise. He realised he hadn't really thought about that. He'd been too concerned with what Rou thought of it and how that was going to affect things. Rou hadn't seemed to take it well.

"Well, I think it's - not really surprise," he admitted. Korin himself had noticed several weeks ago. It wasn't hard, when Fei Lin had been throwing off a soft glow that very nearly illuminated distant corners....

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Tamakazura no Sai) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:41:13 GMT

"I'm still feeling the effects of it," Sai replied, laughing lightly. "He was here last night, drinking it off." Korin was busying himself with the tea things, and Sai watched him contentedly, happy to drink in the sight of him without touching, for a moment. The sudden kiss had taken him by pleasant surprise.

"What do you think of it?" he asked, looking out to the snow-covered courtyard and thinking of Rou and his future offspring. The initial...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Minobe Korin) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:40:02 GMT

Korin's finger traced the words as Sai's voice read aloud. It was only since he had met Sai that he had understood that joy was not the same thing as happiness. Happiness was a little flickering candle. Sai was the sun. He gave a little smile that seemed to spread the warmth and joy to his bones, and he turned his fingers to catch Sai's hand and kissed him there, in the cool air with the reflected light of the snow coming in the window. His eyes rested softly on Sai's face,...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Tamakazura no Sai) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:53:45 GMT

"Work grows tiresome," Sai said softly, and his eyes on Korin said everything other than you grows tiresome. "I felt like a change."

He had been half-expecting to see Korin, which was one of the reasons he had stopped work perhaps a little earlier than usual. It had been two days, and two days was long enough for both of them, even if they were busy. It wasn't a matter of making time, when it came to Korin. He had been here all of a few seconds, and...

Re: Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Minobe Korin) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:35:55 GMT

There was a light dusting of snow over Erion, making everything look cleaner and brighter. On the walk back from the city, Korin's fingers and hands had started to turn white around the edges, and his breath hung in clouds in the air even when he stepped into the palace. He went straight to Sai's rooms, having not seen him for a couple of days now. But by now he shoudl have finished his work, and if he hadn't Korin fully intended to throw it to the damn crocodiles.

He...

Winter |Korin|

feeds@yuku.com (Tamakazura no Sai) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:32:56 GMT

Reading for pleasure was something Sai very rarely did. If he did indulge, it always had a feeling of the forbidden about it, resulting in a delicious guilt which made him turn the pages with all the more enjoyment. He was not working; the book he was reading had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with work. He had not picked up the Manyoshu for a long time now, and, as each page unfolded its beautiful language and music before his eyes, he felt that the loss had been entirely his. There...