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Sage de Riva, the Rose of Treviso, finds herself in the midst of a most unfortunate situation: marry a stranger, or tie herself forever to an unfavorable match. Her preferred answer would be 'neither'. However, a Crow never abandons a contract, and this one has already been signed and sealed for her, leaving her no choice but to venture into the shadowy depths of Nevarra where dark rumors swirl around the mysterious Mourn Watchers- one of whom her hand has been pledged to. Tasked with finding their secrets, will she discover one of her own: that love- and roses- can bloom in the dark?
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In the wake of the loss of a dear friend, Jedi Knight Azrael Morteza finds themself searching for answers and justice. What the light cannot provide, perhaps the dark may answer...
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"We met before, you know," Rook said with a little grin; the light from the dining hall fire winked off the gold rings all up their ear as they took a drink of spiced wine. "I thought I recognized the name, but I wasn't too sure, until we met with Caterina. She's impossible to forget."
"When?"
"It was a while ago— thirteen, fourteen years? My first trip out of the Necropolis. We'd been called into Treviso because there was an issue with undead rising across the city: targets of Crow contracts." They paused, but recognition didn't dawn across Lucanis' face as they had hoped. "It was me and a senior Watcher, my teacher at the time, Leila Obengeist. She's passed on now, but back then she was one of the best."
"That does sound somewhat familiar."
"I see I didn't make a lasting impression," they teased. "We were delayed because of some bad weather in the passes, and we didn't make it into Treviso until after midnight, but I remember when we came in, she was all dressed up like she was on her way to a royal court, not just meeting some ragged necromancers in her front parlor, and then she introduced us to her two grandsons who were going to be assisting us in tracking down the mage. Illario and…"
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old habits die hard by chthonic_muse
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
24 Feb 2024
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A storm is coming.
Metaphorically speaking, of course, but Sheik knows all the signs to look for- he used to stir them up himself, moving through the professional world of business with all the skill of a trained spy, finding skeletons in the closet and turning them into dollar bills for his bosses and their investors. After shaking off those shady dealings to go straight, there are certain things he never thought he'd find himself doing again- or people he'd run into.
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What do you do when evil has triumphed over good? When shadow reigns, and all hope seems lost? When it seems there is no going back to the way things were before?
Well, you join the winning side, of course. And maybe, just maybe, you will be able to change things from the inside out. Maybe in all the darkness, you can be a light. After all, small stones can herald the coming of an avalanche, and one person can change the course of the future.
The problem is that you must portray yourself as a loyal follower. You must obey. You must shroud yourself in the very darkness you wish to unravel. And the longer you wear a mask, the less you are able to recognize the face underneath.
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Desperate for anything to focus on besides the building pleasure that begged for her to cry out, the Listener’s gaze settled on the crimson light reflected off the massive glass and metal depiction of Sithis on the far wall.
It was catching the faintest hint of the candlelight, winking back in sanguine fractals. The rest of the effigy was lost to the darkness, and in the span of one of the flickers she wondered if the Void was watching through the skeletal portrayal. Was the Dread Father sparing a moment to witness as two of his children both desecrated and sanctified one another? As the Keeper and the Listener- the most devoted and the chosen- made idols out of one another to both their borrowed and inborn divinity?
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Character dynamic study but make it prose, I guess.Series
- Part 1 of My Sister's Keeper
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22 May 2022
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an age out of memory by hedgerowhag
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
03 May 2022
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A collection of short snippets focusing on the botw ancient era from the calamity AU. Posted here purely for archiving purposes. Read the beginning note for context.
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18 Apr 2022
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When Alice agrees to a 4-week-long courtship before being intimate with Tarrant, she doesn't realize exactly what she's getting herself into.
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12 Sep 2020
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The Ending That Should Have Been by witchybelle4u2
Fandoms: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
24 Jul 2022
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This is an alternative ending to Francis Ford Coppola's film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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16 Nov 2017