by Guest » Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:32 am
Username: nonbinaryashton
Name: Cerine
Prompt: Cerine's one of those to see everything as a small gift. A sunny day brightens her mood. The leaves crackling under her paws bring a smile to her face. The comfortable weight of a scarf around her neck brings light and mirth to her eyes. The little things are great-- but winter brings a certain wonder she finds incomparable to all else.
There's just no proper way to describe the feeling of waking up to gleaming white outside your window-- excitement doesn't seem to fit. Joy, maybe? Wonder seems to fit best. To close your eyes on the dark night, bleak and dismal, only to wake up to blinding brightness and snow as far as the eye can see. . . it's a feeling she never wants to let go of. There's no beating the warmth a few layers of blankets brings on a cold winter night, nor is there any sensation like hot cocoa cradled between chilly paws.
And how to even begin to describe the curl of anticipation the night of Christmas Eve? How does she even start to explain exactly how her heart feels-- like she's standing on the edge of a cliff, but unafraid of what's waiting below, knowing it's going to be amazing? The way the lights reflect in the windows at midnight, painting rainbows across the dark glass? Excitement, joy, lying awake because the magic of Christmas only grows every year? It's inexplicable.
And Cerine loves every moment of it, even without the words to tell you why.
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Thanks for the chance!!