Object Writing: Water Bottle

A paint chipped water bottle, scraped and dented sits on my desk with the posture of a royal guard. It bears the wet droplets of condensation that gather and fall, a sign of cool water gathering room temperature. The cool water bathes my throat with a sweet breath against the damp heat outside, the momentary relief reminds of a shaded pool in summer after a long day. So it stands, arms length away, slowly draining into hollow steel, seemingly cavernous after it's internal bath. That moment it is hoisted and bears nothing but a drip of cool adjacent water comes with the bitter groan of having to do something about it. With a clatter of creaking bone and chair, I shuffle with my stoic water bottle to replenish its mana of chilled water and call forth the creeping condensation as the room bears its warmth against its ramparts.

Today was an experiment in trying to explain the relief of cool water from a water bottle. I was trying to cover the reliability of the bottle and then the tasty cold water on a hot day. At the end I got a little into the whole castle and soldier thing and just went full ham on metaphors. I really liked it though so definitely would have kept going had I not run out of time!

Not all of this is great, but that's usual and that's also perfectly fine.

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