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thinking of you by silasoctakiseron (sharptoothed) for sirpratchett
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
10 Sep 2024
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I am very sorry to have had to reschedule our rendezvous. I miss you both dearly. I wish you were here with me, even if only to keep me from taking a hammer to my own skull if I hear one more word about rose hybridization or my development of newer, shittier symptoms.
It’s late as I’m writing this, so you’ll get it first thing tomorrow. Be good and save the best parts for the evening rather than staying in bed all morning doing Emperor knows what.
Dulcinea makes up for a last-minute cancellation in the form of an extended letter. Palamedes and Camilla enjoy reading it.
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Psalms 107:1 by badgerjaw for Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 Sep 2024
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As she gazed unseeing out to the vista of black space around the Mithraeum, girdled as it was by asteroids and lit by the radiation of undead stars, she hesitated at the threshold of something new in the home of her mind, feeling it and not quite seeing it.
Fidelity! Fidelity, Isaac! Remember— Jeannemary had cried, at the last.
“Sorry for the wait,” said Teacher, handing her a mug of tea. “I have some bikkies as well, if you’d like.”
“Thank you, Teacher,” she said. “I’m afraid what I have to talk to you about has blunted my appetite.”
Abigail realizes she’s losing faith when confronted with the man who became God.
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Spirit Talking and Other Applications of The Mouth by whatchuknowbouts (firesoul01) for badgerjaw
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 Sep 2024
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Harrow Nova accompanies her necromancer to Canaan House where she meets Abigail Pent. After a small introduction to summoning, Harrow asks for a greater ritual. Abigail is too exhausted and so asks Harrow to provide assistance.
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Through a glass, darkly by Katakaluptastrophy for silasoctakiseron (sharptoothed)
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 Sep 2024
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He could not fathom a world where the mercy of the Tome could be picked and chosen - how did that make one any better than some Sixth sophist, twisting words to fit? Either things had their sense or they did not. And so Colum’s question left him with a twisted feeling in the pit of his stomach: why did a heretic, who gave up her inheritance in the King Everlasting for the falsehood and darkness of the Ninth, come to him in death?
As he prepares to depart to the sacred temple of the First, Silas Octakiseron is troubled by a ghost.
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Your Starless Eyes Remain by jugglingjujube for avgliters
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 Sep 2024
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Somewhere deep in space, aboard a ship, Gideon wakes up to find Harrowhark at her side. Everything has changed, but so has nothing.
OR: Post-NTN Griddlehark where they get really mad at each other and finally fuck it out?