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Of Many Colors

Canon: Breath
Characters: Kileshin the Fell
Pairings:
Prompt: Colors
Rating: K
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She was trained to create what she could never have.

Kileshin sewed the finest cloaks for the wealthiest of her people, but could never wear her own creations.

   

Learning Legato

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Pieter James Andrews, Red Wolf, and Ashen
Pairings: Ashen/Pieter
Prompt: his exact relationship with Ashen and Maybe a bit of a teaser with the lead up to her happiness...
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Ashen had never thought she was normal.

Ashen was trained as a living weapon from her childhood, and now that she is free, understanding normal life—like coffee or love—is difficult at best. She turns to her mentor and her music to help her find the way.

   

A Tale of Fae

Canon: Faeology
Characters: Fae Alend and the Old Bard
Pairings:
Prompt: Fairy Tale
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Notes:

A dribble-drabble (150 words) for 100 Word Stories.

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“Tell us a fairy tale,” the children cried.

The old bard loves to tell stories—of anything but Fae and her beautiful, terrible magic.

   

Into the Temple of the Sun

Canon: Faeology
Characters: Nyx and Fae Alend
Pairings:
Prompt: Who are you? / Here on a high shelf / In webbed flask I / Hook up my folded self...
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So when I first got this prompt, I knew this was the story I wanted to write. It just took a few tries to get it right. Enough anyway.

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Nyx was a wrongness that should not be.

Nyx is dying for fear that when she is reborn, she will cease to be… Nyx.

   

Remembering Stories

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Cayden/Llereya, Cayden, and Llereya de Calai
Pairings: Cayden/Llereya
Prompt: A memory from your chosen character.
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In “Of Memory and Making,” Connor makes the decision to not share memory with his significant other. The choice seemed so significant to me and in_the_blue mentioned it. Here I wanted to show the healthy relationship established and continuing to develop between another couple whose memories have affected them just as deeply, if not more so. Here is a woman who has more self-control than anyone I have ever met. And there is a reason why.

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She remembered the akhlakhai. She did not honor them.

It is Llereya’s birthday, a day for remembering what has gone before, but these are things she remembers alone. She does not like to honor her birthday.

   

Best Friends

Canon: Alliance
Characters: Langley Asberg and Shelley Huntington
Pairings:
Prompt: Best Friends
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An unlikely rescuer and a shy little girl...

Five-year-old Shelley Huntington falls prey to the class bully, but meets an unlikely rescuer with startling results.

   

Since When

Canon: Alliance
Characters: Langley Asberg and Shelley Huntington
Pairings:
Prompt: Done
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Truth is not in the eye of the beholder. Is it?

Two schoolgirls share lunch and misgivings at how to apply truth when the facts are not convenient.

   

Once Upon a Time

Canon: Seven Days
Characters: Connor Bryn, Lena Johnson, and Wesley Bryn
Pairings: Lena/Wesley
Prompt: Picture of Readers under Tree
Rating: K
Notes:

I thought it might be fun to make them run across each other small, but I didn’t want them to recognize each other later, so new bit of canon: the girl was homeschooled. :grins:

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Story is in the mind of the reader.

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a little boy and a little girl liked to read.

   

A Handsbreadth Light

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Bryn out of Calai, Cayden, and Llereya de Calai
Pairings: Cayden/Llereya
Prompt: Picture of Songbird out of Rock Cleft
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Her life was but a handsbreadth compared to his.

The bonds that form between soulmates are inescapable and irrevocable, but Llereya has misgivings when hers appear.

   

Song Between the Waking and the Dreaming

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Red Wolf
Pairings: Red Wolf/Whisper
Prompt: Picture of Girl and Violin
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He had no memory, but he had music.

Red Wolf’s team has taken an assignment they should not have received and the key to its accomplishment awakens the phantom of memories he no longer has.

   

Owning Beauty

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Pieter James Andrews and Ashen
Pairings: Ashen/Pieter
Prompt: Picture of Girl and Violin
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She has never been beautiful.

Ashen has never experienced being beautiful—until tonight.