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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    "'And so pale!' I blurted out before I could stop myself. My face flushed crimson red with my social blunder. I sought desperately for a better descriptor, one that turned fact into poetry. 'I mean to say, she shines like the full moon, but. . . perhaps the moon is too large a comparison for a babe so small. Pearl. That’s it. She gleams like a pearl. A tiny treasure.' I nodded with satisfaction and Molly’s smile grew wider as she beamed down at her child with a level of pride I had scarcely seen before. Had my own mother ever once looked at me like that?"

    After receiving an invitation from his foster father, Hap journeys to Withywoods to meet his new baby sister. Along the way, he composes a lullaby for her and wonders what it means to be a good big brother.

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    11 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Follows alongside Hap Gladheart during the events of Fool's Assassin and Fool's Quest.

    (( 100k+ that just needs posting. Hoo boy. There might be some continuity errors - please let me know! ♥ ))

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    09 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    For the RLBB2020 event on Tumblr, for prompt 4: mother.

    A collection of snippets of various mothers of the Realm of the Elderlings with their children.

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    09 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Horses nicker and shift in their muzzy slumber, and the soft snoring of the minuscule, tan-coated puppies and dog form a susurrus of animal heat - natural, barely perceptible. Chivalry smells the dull grassy sting of old strewn hay, the warmth of fresh milk, the inexplicable smell of young children - the heat of their small frames, the buttery scent of new skin. He wants to vomit, he thinks with some alarm, or maybe faint and sleep for a thousand years. He wants to hold his boy in his own hands. He wants to hand him over to Patience, watch her eyes soften into crescent moons, her dark smooth locks splaying over the boy's bouncing ringlets.

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    A study of Chivalry Farseer's first encounter of Fitz, through Verity and the Skill-sight. Blood of his blood - the quietness before they were apart.

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    08 Dec 2025

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    “Hold on,” Stark says, attempting flippancy but falling well short of the mark. “I’m confused.”

    “I think that makes two of you,” Rhodes says under his breath, but his visible concern remains.

    Vision is not confused. If anything, he thinks the situation is suddenly, painfully, clear. “You do not remember yourself, do you?” he asks gently, and Loki finally meets his eyes. The hollow fear Vision sees there is obvious, and he wonders why he did not notice it before.

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    08 Dec 2025