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    So many decisions around and about Tom Lynn feel difficult for Polly, but five years on from their final confrontation with Laurel, she really must talk these things over with someone, even if he isn't around to be that person. She starts to feel her way towards a beginning.

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    Polly and Tom have their own plans, and after eluding Laurel, Polly has no intention of letting anyone else interfere.

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    It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey: Seb takes Polly on a date that threatens to become an adventure.

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    3
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    47
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    Just a little bit about what happened over the next several years (fewer than nine).

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    1
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    16
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    4
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    114
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    Polly casts him in the role of hero.

    Tom knows better.

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    1/1
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    12
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    27
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    4
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    182
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    Pivotal correspondence from 1984 and 1985. (Or, Polly and Tom make a new way forward.)

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    1/1
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    1
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    9
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    51
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    12
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    289
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    “And I wanted to indicate, however briefly, that although a relationship was possible between Polly and Tom, such a relationship is only likely to be maintained through continuing repeated acts of small heroism from both.”

    –Diana Wynne Jones

    This story’s title originated in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.

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    4
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    21
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    1
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    Granny Whittacker drops a bombshell at a family dinner. A story she thought dead and buried has come back, and she may have to pay the reckoning.

    Contains brief violence, and lengthy scenes about jazz.

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    3,217
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    1/1
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    1
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    7
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    27
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    1
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    107
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    Sophie Hatter hails from a land of wonder and enchantment, the sort of place where kings are just and witches are just plain nasty. Her husband Howl hails from a more mundane land (or so Sophie thinks), but while accompanying Howl to a charity rugby game at Oxford, Sophie meets a certain hero who reveals how strange Howl's home can be.

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    4,129
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    1/1
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    1
    Comments:
    9
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    47
    Bookmarks:
    8
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    518
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    Magic existed in the world—this was indelible fact. But magic was, to Thomas and Polly’s knowledge, something to be used against them.

    Or: In which Thomas and Polly’s daughter receives a Hogwarts letter, and they confront the past.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    3/3
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    8
    Kudos:
    26
    Bookmarks:
    6
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    197
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    Polly didn't especially want to be married, but she thought the lords' fancy party might be a nice change of pace. A house like that, a family like that-- they had to be hiding some sort of mystery. She just didn't expect that mystery to be so tied to a man's fate.

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    1/1
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    2
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    12
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    114
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    How many magical beings with the power to warp reality and cloud memory could there be in one small segment of the UK?

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    1/1
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    1
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    9
    Kudos:
    34
    Bookmarks:
    5
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    230
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    A sad looking man catches Polly's eye at a funeral, but she doesn't speak to him. Several silent meetings and five years later she learns his name, but she still doesn't know why he looks so lost and alone, and why he won't let her help. Can what she doesn't know hurt her?

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    17,001
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    1/1
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    6
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    22
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    4
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    240
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    Polly prepares for Finals, while Tom is away touring with the Quartet. Somehow, they're also trying to plan a wedding, which involves challenges for both of them.

    Language:
    English
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    1/1
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    1
    Comments:
    9
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    41
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    2
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    194
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    And all I've crossed, ain't worth a quarter.
    It's muddy water, until now.

    There's a light, my footsteps guiding.
    For I've been hiding, until now.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    598
    Chapters:
    1/1
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    11
    Bookmarks:
    1
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    126
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    And all I've crossed, ain't worth a quarter.
    It's muddy water, until now.

    There's a light, my footsteps guiding.
    For I've been hiding, until now.

    Language:
    suomi
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    430
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    1/1
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    2
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    48
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    Polly afterwards.

    [PODFIC]

    Language:
    English
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    54
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
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    4
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    80
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    Polly to Tom:
    I’ve been thinking about Hero and Tan Coul’s next adventure. Knights are always haring off to rescue fair damsels, and so shouldn’t Hero and Tan Coul?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,598
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    39
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    238
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    Fiona Perks has never wavered when it comes to Polly, and now she knows why. But spells are easier to cast than to break.

    Language:
    English
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    6,503
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    1/1
    Collections:
    1
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    34
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    80
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    16
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    526
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    Polly and Fiona at Oxford from Fiona's point of view.

    Language:
    English
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    3,299
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    20
    Kudos:
    67
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    460

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