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    Jaskier doesn’t actually know how much time has passed since the black-cloaked Nilfgaardians grab him after a performance in a shitty tavern in the backcountry of northern Kaedwen. He’d assumed--foolishly, apparently--that he was far enough north that any Nilfgaardian soldiers would be few and far between, likely just scouts or even deserters. It would have been hard to actually get any further north--the little backwater town where he’d been singing was just a day from the mountains. Anymore travel, and he’d find himself skirting the Trail up to Kaer Morhen, the Warlord’s Keep, and, well. He’s brazen, but not that brazen.

    (or: a wandering bard bites off more than he can chew with the political ballads, accidentally makes friends with a princess in exile, and finds the Warlord of the North in his debt.)

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    (A Direct Prequel/Missing Scene to With A Conquering Air by inexplicifics)

    Jaskier is newly graduated from Oxenfurt, and has taken up his rightful place in the courts of Redania. Nevermind that none of his peers like him and he finds the whole thing quite boring. The monotony is broken when the King calls a very important meeting one day, but whether this is a positive thing is yet to be seen...

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    Maybe this was what hell was. Reliving all your worst memories, over and over.

    A sharp whine left his throat as Rience forced his head back with a hand in his hair.

    “So resilient. Are you immune to torture? Or is there simply nothing to learn? Did he not value you at all?”

    “I don’t know,” Julian sobbed. “I don’t know anything, please don’t do this!”

    AKA: Jaskier's stuck in a groundhog's day type loop with no memory of who he is, or what he's supposed to be doing. And things go very badly for him.
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    “Not going to eat him, babe.” Daniel says. Armand’s hand twitches slightly, and for a moment Daniel thinks he might get lunged at. Might as well press further. “Actually, he is a looker.” Daniel glances towards Samir. “I might even turn him and get a fledgling of my own. A hot one too.”

    “You would not be able to.” Armand says sharply. Then, because Armand can never act in a nice, predictable fashion, Armand gets closer to reach out, to brush against Daniel’s cheek with his thumb with a touch that no longer feels cold. “An irritating fledgling that would drain him dead not just from inexperience but from hunger as well.” Daniel flinches from the touch. “You haven’t been feeding regularly.”

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  5. Rec 16

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    Puce.

    If anyone had asked Claudia—which they didn’t—what she thought of the term bestowed upon her by the coven, she’s not sure what she would say.

    Of all the languages she tried to learn in preparation for their transatlantic trip, French had never been a favorite. The beauty of a language is often lost when its words are screamed and cried and thrown at you in hatred and disgust.

    But, puce. She knew that word intimately.


    OR: Examining Claudia and Lestat’s relationship through my favorite French term of endearment: ma petite puce.

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    22 Oct 2025