Scenic Prompt

[charisstoma]

Autumn light filters through the Dark Hedges in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Image Credit : Captive Landscapes by Stephen Emerson

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[writer-klmeri.livejournal.com]

That is lovely!

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes it is. I look at it and still I find myself trying to figure out, 'Is it real or is it Memorex a drawing.'

Googling 'Captive Landscapes by Stephen Emerson' reveals that he is a photographer with other pics.

http://www.captivelandscapes.com/game-of-thrones
Stephen on his site says, "Twelve of my images which will be used in a huge tourist campaign aimed at fans of HBO's premiere series, Game Of Thrones, which is filmed across Northern Ireland."

[frogs_of_war]

That's beautiful and I'd love to have enough energy to think up/time to write even a ficlet about it.

Wouldn't it make a terrific book cover. With the protagonists walking down the road. Or someone coming out of the fog.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

From the photographer's site, this looks like it's been used for the Game of Thrones tourist campaign.
*GRINS* There's another photo of this minutes before or after with a tractor emerging from the mists.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

It is beautiful and inspires a longing but you know if there's a chill in the air it could seem foreboding.
*grins* That is my son's take on it is. He could see zombies or something horror emerging from the mists on that road. *SIGHS*

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Carter stopped with no thought of strategies, leaning tiredly against the nearest old tree and staring up the path yet untravelled. Heavy fog obscured whatever lay ahead, murky as his future. The trees themselves reached over the path tangling with their neighbours, sheltering this lonely path, causing an eerie space. Sound didn't seem to penetrate off this path could be any reality, any range of technology or war. Here there was endless silence, leaves rustling above lent more to atmosphere than sound.

A dark shape started to appear centre of the path, striding from beyond the horizon. It approached at a steady pace if the gathering darkness of it's form could be trusted. Ambigious it could be anything and with these surrounds Carter could imagine them all. Raging monsters or clank of heavy armour, war machines or magic. He'd never considered himself an imaginative man but life taught lessons to even the most practical of men. Carter had seen much.

The dark coalesed, the figure shrinking from heraldic beast to simple man. A man stepping purposefully out of the fog, it's tendrils grasping around him then fading to smoke behind him. Lean build, off a height to Carter from what he could judge. The man moved with familiarity to battle, confident steps that hid power there was the air of someone prepared and capable. The Sword sleeve hanging from one hip was not for show. The man's clothes were made of worn, durable, fabric. There was a disbalance from a limp that was not allowed to slow him.

Heart beating steady and loud in this wooden enclave Carter allowed himself to look at the man's face. The man stopped where he was, at the calculated spot that allowed them to regard each other, battle stance but nuetral. Dark hair was growing long and left to fall around his face. A stocic mask with dangerous eyes.

Carter grinned. He pushed off the tree that supported him and found the energy to run forward. Monster or Knight, Friend or Enemy. He wasn't sure and didn't care. For Carter knew this man, knew him intimitely and had promised when battle was over he would be here.

Arms opened to greet him and their hug was hard. The desperate meeting of eyes and lips, all the words they needed.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Sweet little fic *pets the story* which needs to be longer enough to have smut in it. That needs to be fixed *grins*

No pinioning against a tree, arms held high and wide as bodies ...
I do hope that Carter at least had one strategy so that he's open to proper welcoming.
The mist can hide many things.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Well I had to go to work LOL it was only a quick comment fic ;)

Engrossed in book and have a quiet shift so wondering how much time I can skive off and read...taking into account the breaks missed on other nights and general dept division of labour...hmmmmmm!
But then I feel guilty as 'night staff' are struggling. :(

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I wrote my fic that complements yours and posted it under the announcement of yours on my site. Your knight is named John. Quinn's is named William. *grins* Now go write about the clanking that Quinn and William are hearing.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

:D Bite-Back

[frogs_of_war]

Cute and sweet.

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[dominusfiction.livejournal.com]

WOW! It reminds me of photos I've seen of the haunted forrest in Romania! Magical but spooky.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

When I first saw this I wondered if it was an artist's work or if it was an undoctored photograph.
I've visited the site of the photographer. There was a second photo of this but with a tractor emerging from down the lane. So this photo is real life and the photographer does mainly UK environs.

Magical and spooky. *nods head* Oh yes.