bluestarultor on Nostr: #WordWeavers Sep. 10: Share a description from your WIP that establishes atmosphere ...

#WordWeavers Sep. 10: Share a description from your WIP that establishes atmosphere without explicitly naming the emotion.

*"It'll be fine! We're just passing through!"*

The words echoed as Altin looked at the Mages' College Headquarters in the distance. A towering squarish Gothic building that looked like both a church and castle, stone stained brown with age, towers capped with sharply sloped octagonal rooves of aged blue shingles. Edge details a sandier brown, giving texture to the swooping lines, darker materials enhancing the depth of the structure into a cavernous illusion, with a grand arch with heavy wooden double doors buried at the bottom, windows to greet the southern exposure reflecting the overcast sky in a leaden gray, and plenty of sharp upswept details, jutting out of the ocean of rolling green fields as if to pierce the heavens with spears and needles. Against the featureless clouds in the diffuse light, the whole thing could almost have been mistaken as waterlogged and frozen in time.