For imagination!
Username: lilacfishie
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Prompt Response:
You want to have a relaxing weekend off, but a monster starts to rampage in a public place with a lot of civilians.
Rite of the Wildflowers took a slow, deep breath. A smile spread across her face as she took in the silence. None of her sisters were in, the phone wasn't ringing off the hook, nothing. Brushing her hair out of her eyes, she padded over to the stove in her fuzzy socks. On the way, she grabbed a big mug with flowers painted on from the rack on the wall. Just in time, the kettle began to screech. "
That is quite enough," she murmured, taking the kettle off the stove and restoring her silence. Soon enough, her mug was filled with chai and steam rolled off it towards the ceiling. The young woman grabbed a small box of cookies before gingerly picking up her mug and heading for the living room.
The sunlight drifting inside betrayed the frigid cold outside, but Wildflower enjoyed the warm beams anyways as she arranged her stuff on the coffee table. Once the tea was safely placed down, she grabbed the remote and switched the television to play low, relaxing music. Her book, crisp and ready to be cracked open, waited for her on the couch. She took one last look around and smiled when everything seemed to be in its place. Swiping up her book, she flopped onto the plush couch with a happy sigh.
Wildflower couldn't help but to lay there and enjoy the silence for a few moments before rolling over onto her back. To complete the cozy mood, she clutched the blanket draped over the back of the couch and bundled herself up. After popping a cookie between her lips, she opened up her book and began to read.
Rite of the Wildflowers was only about ten pages in when she felt the house shudder. She glanced over the page and out the window she faced. Nothing seemed amiss. Must have just been a really big truck or something. Back to reading. Another shudder, this time bigger. She closed her eyes to pause before she glanced over the book again. Still nothing. "
I guess those trucks are really doing work to get ready for the holidays," she whispered, daring not speak louder and break the spell of the coziness.
She managed to get through two more pages when the silence was broken for her by three emergency vehicles rushing down the road towards downtown. Nope, nothing to worry about. Just relax. Wildflower took a sip of her tea, finally cooled down enough to ingest without third degree burns, and grabbed another cookie. She nearly dropped it when the house shook, more violently this time, and a loud, explosion-like sound echoed from downtown. A groan escaped past the cookie in her mouth as she started to gather what was happening. Maybe it wasn't what she thought it was. Maybe something very mundane, very normal city-like was just going on. Everything got more chaotic near the holidays, right? Right. Back to reading.
More emergency vehicles flew past her house, their lights dancing through the window and along the walls. Rite of the Wildflowers grabbed another cookie, eating this one more out of frustration than anything. No. She was not getting out of her cozy spot. This was going to be a quiet weekend. A. Quiet. Weekend. To. Relax.
The echoing monster roars sealed her fate, though. "
Noooooooo," she whined, flopping her book on her face and sinking down into the cushions. A few moments passed before she finally came to terms with the situation. With a groan, she closed the book and sat it on the coffee table and tossed the blanket, now disheveled, over the back of the couch. Rite of the Wildflowers took one longing look at her tea, barely sipped, and her box of cookies before grabbing the flower-shaped compact off the table and rushing out the door.
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