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Tharkay starts his own aviary.
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A return to his home yields to an unexpected rescue mission for Sipho and Perscitia.
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Hold Fast, Dear Heart by Thisbian
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik, The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
17 Mar 2025
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William Laurence, third son of Lord and Lady Allendale, has been adrift in the world since his failed career start in His Majesty’s Navy. In an attempt to gain a foothold as candidate for Stable Master in his family's legacy as one of the top Thoroughbred yards in the nation, he takes on the seemingly straightforward task of a business trip to the far-flung island of Thisby, where supposedly, an eccentric horseman has managed to introduce the fabled capaill uisce into his breeding stock bloodlines. However, as the autumn tides turn, the island’s facade begins to crumble and Thisby’s true nature reveals itself. Laurence’s life is thrown into upheaval when unforeseen circumstances bring him to enter in this year's race, and he must capture a water horse of his own: a reckless undertaking that could cost him his life.
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Temeraire's curiosity of shipboard traditions during their long voyage to Australia sparks some intriguing discussions on the language of tattoos.
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Set in the Prussian base camp after the events of the crew's desperate flight from Istanbul.
"Tharkay carefully examined the scorched flesh of his thigh. Sequestered away in a small tent on his own he whispered a single expletive to himself."
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“The captain was clearly one of those Englishmen who, having acquired a taste for the exotic during his travels and being a gentleman of means, wielded his power over the natives to affect the trappings of a status he had not earned...
...For his own part, Tharkay had long since ceased to draw from the poisoned well the British called love.”
Tharkay and Laurence’s story from Tharkay’s perspective, from Black Powder War through Tongue of Serpents.
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- Part 1 of The Compass
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Cacophony of Bells by VerdetCadet
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
13 May 2025
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When the Reliant and its unusual cargo are blown far north, William Laurence wakes on the beach of an unfamiliar shore. The strange, magic-wielding traveler who finds him there seems less interested in his wellbeing, and much more interested in what his ship has been carrying.
Set pre-Sabriel during the years of the Interregnum
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Laurence is dying, probably.
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In which Laurence has a face that launches a jolly boat, but that's enough.
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- Part 2 of A queer sort of Helen
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what is writ upon our skin by Cypress_Trees for VerdetCadet
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
26 Jul 2024
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There are many ways to find one’s soul-mate, and some are more rocky than others. Occasionally, very rarely, one discovers one’s soul-mate stark naked in the middle of the baths of a dragon covert. Granby and Laurence do not make it easy for themselves.