Greetings to all - especially runriggers, <user site="livejourn

Happy New Year to all.

I want to share this piece of music with you all, because to me, New Year is a very Celtic thing.

It is the piece made especially for the opening of the new BBC Alba service - the BBC Gaelic language channel for Scotland.

If you like scenery, and people, you will love it, but is especially for runriggers, talesofsnape and fionnabhar - they will all see why, if they play it!

Also for mylescorcoran for his birthday, if he likes this sort of thing...but there wasn't room to put you on the header - sorry!

Starlight Bathing. Chapter One of a 'Dawn in Middle Earth' story.

I have had this finished on my Hard-drive for a day or two. It is three chapters long, and I will probably post them one a day over the weekend.

It is a 'fill-in' for Return of The Key, covering Dawn's integration into elven society through a thread of nude communal bathing!

The Dawn/Rumil relationship is at the centre of the story, it is pretty much romance (with a wee hint of porn...) - no major angst. It is meant to be light entertainment to cheer you up as the holiday period comes to an end and we face winter proper!

So -
Chapter 1/3.
Words - 4,150
Rating - 17 (For whole story, this chapter maybe more a 15.)
Beta'd as usual by S2C

Starlight Bathing (or The First Time...) ( is under here )

Chapter two is here.

I really would appreciate comments on this, in view of a couple of discussions around on writing stories without conflict, is it too schmoopy?

Also - a big Squee!! Return of The Key has been nominated in the Twisting The Hellmouth 'Crossing Over Awards'!! I am extremely chuffed - Big thank you to whoever it was who nominated me!

In other news - we had a roast goose yesterday to see in the New Year - D-d's boyfriend was impressed by it, as it was totally not greasy - this is because I know how to cook goose. We washed it down later with a bottle of exceedingly good vintage port, and we had the last scraps of goose for dinner tonight, with the last of the spiced red cabbage. Back to normal food now...