Tag: Original Work
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2. The Proposal
Maren’s rune will let her body take all of him without pain, and she’s the one…
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1. Another One Gone
Thrask the orc blacksmith turns up at midnight after yet another human lover has left him.…
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5. Mended with Gold
Nell mixes her own blood into kintsugi gold and paints every crack. When the last one…
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4. The Cracks
Three weeks of nights, and the cracks are spreading from every place Nell has kissed him.…
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3. Given Freely
Aurelian can’t take anything, only feel what Nell chooses to give. So she climbs into his…
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2. He Speaks
Nell winds the key and the doll draws breath, courtly, wry, and grieving her grandmother as…
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1. The Estate
Nell Ashby inherits her late grandmother’s crumbling house, and a life-size porcelain gentleman in the locked…
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Bonus – Our Own
Years later, Vael has passed the song to her daughter, and Wren and Kesh have a…
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Epilogue – Home
Wren lays the brood into the new halls but keeps one egg that is hers alone.…
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7. The Claiming
Wren comes back by choice and asks them to let their scents go. Vael lays her…