The Wordsmith's Forge

dialecticdreamer is hosting Feathering the Nest. Leave prompts, get ficlets! Usually this one focuses on general fluff and comfort, but this time has a theme.

For those who know how these prompt calls work, I prefer to write gentle fiction, and Feathering is generally focused more on feelings and character development than plot. So, please, tell me how you want me to finish a plot summary beginning, “After an awful, stress-filled day that seemed to take fourteen days to get from shutting off the morning alarm to lunchtime---”