sea stories
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Your name is Dirk Strider, and you're just a dancer in the Golden Queen's court, but the favorite of the troupe besides. You're also the Golden Prince's best friend- though you wish you were more. But when Jake is poisoned by an assassin at his eighteenth birthday party, there's nothing you think you can do to save him, until he tells you a story, dark and sorrowful, fully expecting to die.
You've never been one for fishermen's magic, but all the same, you row out in the middle of a New Moon night, with your soul and a story to make a bargain to the sea.
(On Hiatus.)
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- Part 1 of sea stories
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You lean closer, twisting in on yourself until you’re no taller than he is. He watches with something approximating fear but that mostly brings to mind curiosity, and apprehension, less at the sinuous wrongness of your form and more at the possibility of an attack.
Your body drips with reforming flesh until you stand on the skiff with him, back straight and eyes narrow. He relaxes his hold on the tiller when you don’t make a move towards him, but there’s a tense moment between the two of you nonetheless where all you can hear is the faint slap of water on the hull.
You break it first.
“Speak.”
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James Garen Egbert, King of what once were the Golden Isles, presents a trade to the fearsome King of Dragons.
(Intermission/side story from Gardens of Coral and Pearl.)
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- Part 2 of sea stories