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    A trilogy of fics focusing on Red's life in Cloudbank -- in work, in love, and in discovering the truth about the Camerata.

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    After everything that went wrong between them, what exactly is Asch's and Natalia's relationship? In the new world after the Score ends, they face new enemies and new responsibilities. What does a childhood promise mean now? And if it means anything -- how can it be fulfilled?

    Rating: high T to low M. Character-driven. Romance, Angst, Humor. Each part is written so that it can be read on its own. Warnings inside.

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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Abel held up his hands, helpless. “She’s sitting in my house holding Cissy’s hand this very minute! She gave me her valise before I left the house, and I thought sure she’d send an errand boy to fetch it back tomorrow. But no, not an hour ago she walked right up to my door, determined as you please, and I do believe she intends to stay despite how the whole damned ruck of Stirlings must be throwing a tantrum as we speak. The spunk of the girl! The ways of Providence are strange.”

    Life was full of surprises, but in Barney’s experience, people generally weren’t. Oh, people had surprised him before, in his callow youth, but that was because he hadn’t understood who they really were. Once you got down to someone’s true character, you could see that they’d been who they were all along. People mostly kept doing just what they’d been doing their whole lives, what they’d been brought up to do. Of course he’d met a handful of those who bucked tradition and struck out on their own, but he hadn’t expected to find one in Deerwood.

    “Is it Providence?” he asked. “That seems as clear a demonstration of free will as anything I’ve ever heard.”

    Five times Valancy Stirling surprises Barney Snaith.

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    26 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    Eight years after being widowed, Esma continues to keep her family's lighthouse on her own, resigning herself to the assumption that this is all life has left in store for her. But when she rescues an injured sailor and agrees to care for him while he heals, she finds her assumption, and her outlook, challenged at every turn.

    In an effort to repay her kindness, Argider offers to repair Esma's cabin, which has fallen into disrepair. Hesitant to allow anyone to work on it at first, Esma relents, and finds herself confronting her memories and being drawn back into life itself as the repairs progress and Argider's presence becomes a source of comfort.

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    31 May 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    And like Alice with her rabbit hole, down they fell, into the abyss.

    (Asch, Luke, and the two year interval)

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    14 Jan 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    The sword feels like nothing more than a cruel taunt. It fills the space he left, blinking with his words and his voice and his love, but it feels more like a cage than a body.

    He's trapped there, unable to touch her, and she's trapped here, unable to apologize.

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    10 Oct 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    The hardest part was stepping into his old shoes and realizing they no longer fit him. Series of Asch-centric one-shots in which he lives.

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    09 Oct 2022