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Carlisle's Alaskan home was gorgeous, the front was made of long and thick slats of red sylon wood, windows disturbing the perfect symmetry of the build only approximately once ever feet. The roof was modern and opened, greenery covering most part of it where there weren't a chimney.
It was homey, and when they stepped in, Tomi was first to note of certain things. There was no sounds in the house. Not the sound of air conditioning that hummed, no furnace running, no creaking. Just pure, undisturbed silence that rung empty in her ears.
It smelled of long summers, weather-worn wood and winter. It was a lucky time to be in Alaska, just when the weather began getting cold and the beaches turned impossible to navigate without five million layers of clothes on. The peaks of the mountains that rose just behind the draping lake on the horizon were covered with snow and shone as it melted and froze and melted all over again in an unstoppable cycle. On the horizon, just at the base of the mountains where there were no chances of being buried by avalanches, was a quiet little town. There was a grocery store, a post office, houses of all the colors of the rainbow and a school that combined primary, middle, and high school. Tomi thought she might have seen an art and botanical shop, but it had went by so fast that she really couldn't be sure.
There were three docks, too, just a mere football field away from their cottage-home, where fishermen were hard at work.
It was lucky that there was even a road from the airport to here, because she honestly did not know how else they would have made it.
"I'm going to take a bath. Tomorrow's our first day, so please do spare us all and go straight to sleep." Gwendolyn gave them pointed looks, before ascending to the stairs and up to the bedrooms.
Edward sighed, gently placing down the bags within the hall-living room's opened closet.
"Are you hungry?" He asked, deciding to ignore Gwendolyn who had vividly told them not to stay up too long. It was about five am, and though the sun was out, it felt like night in Tomi's head.
"Aah," She slid across the living room and spread her arms wide to stretch her bones. There was a fireplace just beneath the TV, and Tomi orbited around it before speaking up. "A little. Dunno. Tummy feels weird." Was the only answer that Edward was given.
