Prompt - bedroom Gothic

[charisstoma]

Well it's not a vampire's lair. The windows are too large. Anyone could just wander in with a stake.

Posted:
Part 1- Wonderland is here. Go read.

Title: The Bed
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 313

Struggling up through heavy mists of unconsciousness Rowan opened eyes gone blurry and crusted with sleep. Dark wood rose above him and in the center crystals trailed and looped. It took him a while to see well enough to realize it was a chandelier and the wood a canopy of an ornate bed. He shook his head and pressed the heels of his hands to his eyes trying to make sense of it and perhaps hoping that whatever it was would change back to his own bed in his own room. It didn’t help, he found. Same heavy dark wood, same chandelier hanging from that canopy and wasn’t that the strangest thing. Who the hell would put a chandelier in the center of the wood canopy of a bed?

“I see you’ve finally wakened,” a voice said and Rowan made a search for the person that it belonged to.

There was movement as a man rose from a seat and stepped from an alcove near the bed. “Do you remember how you arrived here?”

Rowan’s barely, even to himself, audible voice replied, “no”.

The man stilled and then smiled, “well, good. It’s always nice to have unexpected guests. It caused no end of confusion when you arrived along with your bed in the center of my study.” He pulled a face, “luckily there was nothing and no one in the way at the time.”

What answer could Rowan give but a nodded head and a croaked, “yes. Where am I?”

“Well presently you are in my study,” he stopped and grinned. “Do you have any memories of how you came to be here?”

“No,” Rowan faintly answered shaking his head. “I remember a forest and a dark enclosed space with a small hole to see through and a,” he hesitated, “a white rabbit?”

The man’s grin got bigger. “Oooooh yes, those white rabbits.”

Comments

[meridae.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's about what I imagine Warne and Ranel's bedroom to be. But with a whole lot more kittens.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

*laughing* Complete with the crosses on the spindle tops of the canopy?
Can you imagine kittens and all that fabric to climb in that bedroom?
Do we need to talk about bouncing up onto the chair and from there to the bed and the velvet padded headboard.... jump.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

There are no kittens currently pictured in that photo so a whole lot more kittens... it takes just one and then the herd happens.

Seems more like Duke, Brian and Balthazaar's bedroom. You'd expect a knight to have crosses scattered around.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

There's a fic posted above. *blinks innocently* Just saying.

[frogs_of_war]

Is there a chandelier on the roof of the bed? If it wasn't for the bed, I'd say that was almost a dining room. That alcove could be the way to the kitchen.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I did not notice that! That is a chandelier, whether or not it's functional is another thing.

The whole room is over the top. Kind of like the window treatment but I'd use different fabrics. Gather your draperies and sew them to panels that are then set on the rods.

[frogs_of_war]

My daughter noticed that although the bed is very angular, the room is round: arches on the ceiling, round medallions on the carpet, curved legs on the table, round pillow, round wall decorations, curved chandelier, rounded candlesticks and knickknacks... The quatrefoils on the bed (the shamrock-y things) don't make the bed any less angular.

Also I just noticed that that windows are really doors.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Hadn't noticed how many things in the room were rounded, good spot.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Room seems to small for the bed, like Frogs says it looks misplaced like it's in the wrong room. Would need a fairly stark room to give it proper majesty.

Never seen a bed with it's own chandelier before, notice no curtains though.

Hmmm maybe it's a special spell bed? People under a curse get to spend the night in it or special hunters are allowed to rest there to heal magical wounds and sleep safe.

[frogs_of_war]

A special spell bed. Healing capability or something. Or maybe it's portable consecrated ground, so evil dreams can't disturb you there.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

That would explain why it doesn't appear to match the room. Hastily transported and put in the only room with a high enough ceiling.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

The two of you seem to have come up with the makings of a plot. *GRINS*
Probably won't get posted 'til Monday. But will see what I can do.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

I do so love when the plunnies bite you back *happy*

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Go read above you two. There's Part 2 to Wonderland.

Let's see have I found everyone to inform them hmmmmm.

[frogs_of_war]

Very nice. Those white rabbits. *shakes head*

Which picture prompt are you going to use for Part 3?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Not sure yet, which prompt to play with.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

'oooooh yes, those white rabbits.'

*giggle-fit*

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Yep, white rabbits.