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Nano 2011 - Days 38-39 24.

Ed came in carrying what looked like a bird ready for cooking rather than a live thing that had been killed. It was a strange relief to Cassie to see it like that, not a feather in sight, no beak and no dulling eyes to remind her of what it had been. It was a meal in the making now – a promise of nourishment instead of a reminder of death.

Ed looked about the small house and asked, 'Where's Frankie?'

Cassie opened her mouth, uncertain of how to speak. She took the goose from his hands and laid it on a tray and said with her back to him, 'He went back to his house.'

She rotated the tray with the bird on it, looking at the pale, pi
Nano 2011 - Days 36-37 23.

Light, slanting at such an oblique angle through the glass that it pooled out over the floor, catching every small rise and fall between the stone slabs of the floor and sending shadows like dark tongues toward the back of the church. There was no coloured scene of wonder in this east window – just ancient, striated glass diamonds that let an underwater light through into the captured air.

There was something very Catholic about the Church of England service – the robes and the swinging censers and the mysteries. It was something far different from the plain Methodist Sundays that Ed was used to. But Cassie seemed content here
Nano 2011 - Days 34-35 22.

There was a haze starting up on the ploughed earth. When Cassie stood with her bare feet on the edge of the field she could see tiny spears of green pushing through the sod, thicker and more verdant than the natural grass. She knelt by the side of the pool of earth, and then she lay down with her face close to the ground and stared through the thin drift of blades, seeing her future and her bounty sprouting right up from the ground. Each one of those leaves, thinner than paper, was a promise of what would be.

She couldn't wait for the harvest. She couldn't wait for the time when all of this earth would be a swaying field of golden grain
Nano 2011 - Day 31-33 Cassie glanced toward the form of Amriel again. She realised that she could barely see his body. She could only see flashes of the wings as they moved.

'Ed, do you think he still likes me in that way?' she asked him carefully.

Ed looked at her, breathing out between his lips, looking her up and down as if he could not imagine how a man could not like her in that way.

'Well,' he said slowly, 'I figure a man can't spend all that time drinking coffee with you and looking at you in the way I've seen him look without feeling something for you.'

'You mean it's impossible for a man to like me, instead of just my flesh?' she asked him, bridling m
Nano 2011 - Day 30 20.

The only person who needs to forgive you is Amriel.

Cassie regretted saying that almost as soon as the words left her mouth. But she had meant it. She didn't believe that Ed had done wrong, but she knew that the only forgiveness that would truly absolve him was the forgiveness of the man whose life he had taken. He needed the understanding of the man whose life he had taken. She realised in that moment that Amriel was not preternaturally wise or omniscient. He was not an angel of God sent here to guide them. He was a man who had died too soon and in too much pain, and somewhere inside himself he was still angry and resentful and afraid.
Nano 2011 - Day 29 He stood up and pushed his cold hands into his pockets, and started walking. He put one foot slowly in front of the other, forcing himself onward. He had walked a lot around these roads in the last few days, staring at the ground and the sky, looking at the outside of the village church and not being able to bring himself to go in and pray. How many days had it been? He counted carefully, extending one finger at a time inside his pocket. One, two, three, four... Was it really only four days ago? That had to be right, but in some ways it felt like a month ago, a year ago. In some ways it felt as if he were still just walking away from the wrec

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Critique by ~exdream2k5 Aug 9, 2010, 11:38:59 AM
What catches my eye most are Poirot's expressions in each photo. In the first, he's wide-eyed and curious. In the second, he's got his eyes closed with that "happy cat" look on his face. The contrast between his expressions is very pleasing to the eye.

Another aspect of the photos that stands out of me is the perspective. *Aconitum-Napellus shot both photos from almost the same exact position. It's barely noticeable, which I really like.

Unfortunately, cats and boxes are a common, recurring theme, and there isn't much in the way of originality. Even so, Poirot's expressions make the shot.
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Mood: Adoration ~RicaVega Feb 21, 2011
This is lovely.
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=Aconitum-Napellus Feb 21, 2011  Professional Writer
Thank you :D

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!ashy2883 Jan 31, 2011
so cute.

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*StarvingFartist Aug 22, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
How adorable. Pardon my poor choice of words but- HE LOOKS SO FLUFFY.

The expression on the bottom half is just so adorable~ Great shot.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Aug 25, 2010  Professional Writer
Thank you :XD: I suppose he does look fluffy. I'm used to my mum and dad's cat Hilly [link] - and she's a whole lot fluffier :XD:

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~UndeadKitty13 Jul 24, 2010
my cat loves boxes
or maybe she was just nosy
she'd jumped in to any box that i brought into the house
still really cute

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~Stumm47 Nov 25, 2009
He's a cutie!

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=Aconitum-Napellus Nov 29, 2009  Professional Writer
:D

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=WhiteSpiritWolf Nov 17, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
nice idea and capture
cute cats ;)

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=Aconitum-Napellus Nov 18, 2009  Professional Writer
Thanks :XD:

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