DrabbleWriMo 16: Fantasy

I've been looking ahead and trying to do the planning that is so desperately needed, and in fact it looks as if the problem is *not* going to be squeezing fifteen prompts into a quarter of the book's plot; the problem is going to be fitting the remaining quarter of the book's plot into the small number of applicable prompts :-(

What on earth am I going to do with 'umbrella', 'herb', and 'medicine'? The latter could *just* about apply to the restorative that Marthe reluctantly gives the Comte de Brencourt on his collapse, but that confrontation cannot possibly occur as late as Day 26, for the simple reason that there wouldn't be any room to speak of for any of the rest of the plot afterwards. I can't see umbrellas making any sense anywhere outside Paris. ( umbrellas )

( Stuck on later prompts )

I am, however, still making slow progress with Hertha's graveyard scene during my travel and lunch hours ;-)

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She would have picked her husband another flower and tried to laugh off the omen, but he would not hear of it. Each petal was salvaged gently from the sand, kissed, and put away. Then Valentine came into his arms.

"It was worth it," she whispered, muffled. "All those years for the happiness we have had in this hour. Only I wish I could die, now, and not see it pass..."

His voice was low. "I have a dream that this place, this hour shall hold us always, in life and in death."

The yellow poppies glimmered at their feet.