Yuletide but not Yuletide
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Denny god damn Crane
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"He could not leave this room without his father's permission. And he could not imagine going to his father and saying, 'Please let me go gather moss so that my slave can have a proper New Year for once.'"
What can you give a slave who, by law, can own nothing? That is the question faced by Peter, the teenage heir to the throne of an empire. Despite his father's desire that the imperial heir maintain a formal distance from servants, Peter finds himself drawn in friendship to the younger boy who serves as his slave.
But a shocking revelation on the eve of the New Year forces Peter to confront his own motives for keeping the slave close by. And that in turn will help him understand the deeper meaning of the gift-giving festival.
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- Part 10 of The Three Lands
- Part 3 of The Three Lands: side stories to Blood Vow and Law of Vengeance
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"His influence over the behavior of the other dungeon-workers had never been greater. It was a responsibility that weighed upon him."
The Eternal Dungeon is celebrating the Commoners' Festival, and all the elite are feasting. Including a man who is secretly a commoner.
This is a 2015 holiday gift story for my readers.
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- Part 25 of The Eternal Dungeon
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"There was trouble here. He was determined to find and break the troublemaker."
Midwinter's god is as cold as cruelty and as warm as a loving heart.
Winter solstice begins the sacred season of Hell's Fast, when Hell's worshippers sacrifice food for the sake of the underworld god. But the High Seeker of the Eternal Dungeon is in no fit mood for holy rituals; duty has deprived him of the presence of his new love-mate.
Then comes trouble, in the form of an invader to the High Seeker's privacy and comfort. . . .
This story is a 2016 holiday gift fic for Dusk Peterson's readers.
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- Part 11 of The Eternal Dungeon
- Part 5 of The Eternal Dungeon, Volume 1: side stories to Rebirth
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Season of Dangerous Peace by Dusk Peterson (duskpeterson) for My readers
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21 Dec 2017
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"In a week's time, in every village and town in Koretia – even in the great capital city where the King's palace stood – Koretians would gather together to celebrate the New Year. There would be festive foods and drinks and the tossing of nuts into the fire, as the Koretians prayed to the gods for good fortune in the coming year. Most of all, there would be the making of creation baskets: living symbols of the beauty that was Koretia. . . . And then, the next day, the killings would resume."
His village is dead, his baron broken beyond mending. Now, as the year reaches the season of peace, the baron's heir must decide whether to keep his family hidden, safe from the blood feud that is ravaging their kingdom, or to enter danger in quest of a higher goal.
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- Part 4 of The Three Lands
- Part 3 of The Three Lands: side stories to Law Links
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"It was like waving a wintergreen stick in the face of a starving man, then slowly sucking it in front of him, smiling smugly."
Having other folks flaunt their winter festival celebrations is bad enough, when you're a prisoner locked down for the rest of your life.
The only thing worse is having a cell-mate who is determined to join the celebrations.
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- Part 7 of Life Prison
- Part 6 of Life Prison, Volume 1: side stories to Mercy's Prisoner