Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Her sisters found Fran's wanderlust a cause for concern, today a cause for derision. Her pacing hindered their efforts to armour her. Fran was frightened. Every familiar face hid behind funereal paint.
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- Part 1 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 199
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Fran did not wield regret. She drew one sword and two, trusted herself to know her armour secured, and turned to meet her opponent.
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- Part 2 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 200
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The marriage was something of an arrangement; mutually, they came to it late. The first night equally proved a collaborative effort, ponderous manipulation of limbs and, lost in moans, the startling discovery of a matching sensuality.
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- Part 3 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 420
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 136
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Perhaps everything passes precisely as it is meant to, his mother truly blinded those final days as she had been in Landis to not see what would pass. Noah holds as steady in pace as he had back then when Landis burned, fates guiding him, never stumbling, even here, up each damned flight of stairs that graces Tsenoble's highest walks, to where he will burn his mother's remains to ash.
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- Part 4 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 1,259
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 129
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The handkerchief descends, to be applied with the force of a changing grace. Father dictates from his distance (a chin and bright glasses, white gloves and somewhere beneath lies skin Ffamran's never seen): 'Blow it all out here.'
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- Part 5 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 200
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- 1/1
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- 114
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Basch is a war refugee making an illegal living in Rabanastre. Enter the homeguard.
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- Part 6 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 201
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- 1/1
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- 1
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Ffamran joins the extraordinary league of not-quite-gentlemen.
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- Part 7 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 200
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- 1/1
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- 131
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Fran tries many careers in her lifetime. 'Archadian dominatrix' was not the best of them.
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- Part 8 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 3,960
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 165
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They're both fine with the idea of sex. It's the intimacy that sneaks up on them, and always when they're too tired to fight it off.
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- Part 9 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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He sounds wistful. 'I've wanted to do that since I met you.'
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- Part 10 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 198
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- 1/1
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- 1
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The expression in Fran's eyes was unreadable, but her lips were moist, her ears quivering. Balthier considered his options then, desires that always proved conflicted between convention and response, want and need, an outward life that must be maintained and the longing that ever went unspoken.
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- Part 11 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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She had to stop thinking of this as Balthier humoring her.
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- Part 12 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 202
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Balthier's eyes open with dawn, but he is unseeing for long moments, the chill stone of his bed no comfort. Fran did not sleep the night prior, a thank you for the several nights he had not; she does not mock his lassitude now. They do not breakfast. Balthier takes a handful of snow to rub across his face, brisk, his hand through his hair as though he does not dare hypothermia; Fran toys with a milky icicle snapped from their cave's mouth, and does not think of pastries, cream, star fruit and pomegranates.
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- Part 13 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 2,808
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- 3
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- 149
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Remembrance is his wife, for Zecht cannot shake it. His shame is like love, ever-present madness, that his defense – to forget – has him near forget himself.
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- Part 14 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 158
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- 1/1
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- 105
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Unexpectedly, Cidolphus finds his runaway son.
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- Part 15 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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It's down here, in Lowtown, with the starving and the near-starving, watching the people try, still spitting defiance - Basch's final defiance, no surrender – Vossler thinks he understands, that he wonders, what right does a single person have to dictate what happens to this country, these people? What right does a pale-skinned girl have to tell these sun-gold citizens that they should suffer in her stead, for her pride, for her birthright, a grace they will never experience?
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- Part 16 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 374
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- 1/1
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- 1
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"The purpose," Balthier repeats, "of wrestling, of this marvelous display of muscle and madness, is to command submission. What Azelas is doing–" Basch hisses into the sand, thrashes unbidden; Vossler's teeth, his breath is at the nape of Basch's neck "—is what's called a hold down. As you can see by where he's putting his hand, he intents to emphasize his physical superiority over his opponent, who, despite his considerable exertion, can't quite achieve release. Or does my assertion come prematurely—?"
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- Part 17 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 2,354
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- 1
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- 182
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Azelas, or so a desert-crazy history lecturer had taught one young Archadian, was a name sourced in the original desert tribes, ancestors who had been Dalmascan before even Raithwall's ascendancy, since even before Dalmasca was called what it was. The joke (rumour, reputation, myth) circled amongst Imperials who had fallen foul of Vossler's command or of his greatsword's shadow. Captain Azelas' bloodline had been so long in Dalmasca that his kind burned black with the sun that bleached everyone else so blonde.
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- Part 18 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 1,825
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- 1
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The space is narrow and thick with blood's stench. Basch's left shoulder abrades against a fallen mass of concrete on one side, his fingertips touching the wind-taut thrum of tent on other. Basch stares for long, thoughtless moments. His heart's beat is rapid enough that it sounds like a man running. Basch breathes, and hurts; he breathes until hurt should subside; he breathes, but he still hurts.
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- Part 19 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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After agreeing to sell Ashelia to the Imperials, Vossler still has to bring her there.
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- Part 20 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 639
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- 1
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They stayed. Basch turns over. The shift in weight disturbs Fran enough she flaps an ear flat, which brushes past Balthier's nose. His eyes open at the motion, still veiled with sleep, and close again. He makes an unhappy sound at the need to rise, a plaintive: 'Another hour…'
Basch can give them that, wants to give them more, wants to take more. The both of them stayed. There are no apologies due this morning.
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- Part 21 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Ashe delivers Basch mulled wine where he stands watch. Basch wears Balthier's fur against the cold; his hair threads through the collar, gold turned to silver by moonlight. The snow sets sparkling jewels amidst hair, fur and lashes alike, an illusion that cascades as Basch unfolds his arms to wrap bare hands around the mug's metal.
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- Part 22 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 411
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- 128
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The sauce of campfire politics and favourable negotiations.
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- Part 23 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 200
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- 1/1
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- 124
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"My lady viera." Larsa bows in the way his courtiers have taught him, even so encumbered. "I thought myself most discreet."
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- Part 24 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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The matter of a flower, Nabudis, and where responsibility lies.
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- Part 25 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 199
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- 181
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Occuria don't really *get* rhetorical questions.
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- Part 26 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 201
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On the heroic party's unheroic return from the Pharos (Elza would grieve later, she promised), Elza felt Fran as truly disconnected for the first time: amongst the broken party, only Fran stood unconcerned for their safe arrival (bar one) into Balfonheim's eternal afternoon, where wavelets taunted with their normality.
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- Part 27 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 499
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- 108
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When Basch steps across the threshold, three blonde children too young for gender greet him with a shower of bright building blocks. Each one bounces off his armour with a clang.
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- Part 28 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 199
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His smile flashes white against sunkissed skin, bronze hair, his sideburns are thicker, a new scar tallied along his jaw. Too feral a beast to be housed, his smell extends beyond his shoulders' breadth: sweat, heat, citrus (and Ashe remembers his habit of consuming oranges, skin, pith, seed, flesh entire, devoured with gusto).
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- Part 29 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 200
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 116
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After the fall, Balthier and Fran visit Basch in Archades. This time, more than proximity, more than intimacy, Balthier longs for familiarity.
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- Part 30 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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When uncertain catastrophe eventuates in Rozarria, Balthier takes it on himself to do Basch's dirty work. Basch is less than pleased; the currency of favours fluctuates.
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- Part 31 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 7,070
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 245
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Basch and Fran play tag-chasey in Balthier's house. (No excuses.)
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- Part 32 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Vossler lives. A Dynast's tears burn hot enough to scar.
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- Part 33 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Vossler wakes in Basch's bed alone, still on his back and muscle-sore. He prefers to sleep on his side, but Basch had fallen to sleep so swiftly Vossler had no courage to suggest a change in position.
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- Part 34 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Balthier swings a heel through the scattered glass left after Vossler's voided attempt at avoidance, the window five floors up left empty, hungry.
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- Part 35 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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These conversations are always awkward, especially as Balthier wants to chair them, over coffee and never alone. Vossler is conscious of the strangers who sit an arm's span away. That they are stoned Moogles is not comforting; they are Archadian Moogles. With very large ears.
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- Part 36 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 202
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- 2
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Vossler has a hard time trusting his own judgment. Some things can't be rushed.
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- Part 37 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Balthier visits his father. A Cid!Lives AU, just because.
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- Part 38 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 200
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- 1/1
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- 1
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Vossler has a weapon kink. Balthier has a weapon.
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- Part 39 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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The angle turns lens to mirror: twin circles worth of sky look at her. Balthier's recent silence has not been as light as his tone now. 'Is this how you'll tell me you're pregnant, then?'
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- Part 40 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 198
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- 1/1
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Ffamran's calligraphy looks a child's beside Fran's practiced hand. Basch steps forward to mark his witness and ordinance both, as magister.
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- Part 41 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 199
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- 1/1
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- 232
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'Penelo hated my sketches.' Balthier stood too close to Fran; he did not look at the chubby hand reaching for his spectacles' shine.
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- Part 42 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 100
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- 1/1
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- 198
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The alphabet blocks don't break Balthier's ankle the second time he trips: they shatter his temper. He shouts until Fran meets his gaze. Her right ear turns away.
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- Part 43 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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- 104
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- 186
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Gilt-green eyes peer up through round spectacles, tea-gold eyes unimpeded but for white lashes. Both gazes are swamped with pleading. The marlboro looks ridiculous in swaddling. If Balthier had known what the twins wanted with their old baby blankets, he would have refused to open the store.
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- Part 44 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 199
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- 207
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These rare afternoons of leisure time are always awkward ones.
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- Part 45 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 446
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- 1/1
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- 219
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Vossler turns a riot's tide; rescue is as unexpected as it is welcomed.
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- Part 46 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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Aging skypirates take on a dragon, only to be confronted with a few thousand realities of the modern Ivalician world.
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- Part 47 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
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As they were placed, Jote could not have seen Mjrn's fascination. A curious trick of shadow to have Fran's daughters look so much like him, a taint as clear as their shortened ears.
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- Part 48 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 200
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- 219
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The only bonds that can be trusted are those forged by hand and choice. Nature's cords come with edges, to cut themselves free.
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- Part 49 of Final Fantasy XII Bondsverse
- Words:
- 200
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 158