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Like Sunlight on the Waves by raspberrycoffeecake
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
08 Jul 2024
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Aleksander married Alina before she fled the Little Palace, and those three days they spent in wedded bliss have implications for everything that comes after.
After all, he won't let his wife slip through his fingers so easily.
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22 Apr 2025
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She will have one chance to do this. One chance to escape him, to earn more time to figure out how to defeat him. “You’ve shown me your hand,” she says, her core heating as she goes so bright that the tent’s occupants hit the ground to hide from it. The Darkling doesn’t, but she’s caught him unawares. His shadows are wild, uncontained as they attempt to thread through her light, to get to her. He’s scrambling. “Now I will show you mine.”
Then she sends a quick prayer to whoever is listening, brightens her light to the point where she can only hold it a few seconds without harming anyone, and bends it away. She only has a moment to throw herself into the crowd of Grisha on the floor, masking herself in the frantic heartbeats, before the Darkling lets out an inhuman, almost keening sound, slams his hands together, and sends them all into darkness.
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aka alina figures out that the stag and her power is hers a little earlier and earns herself the time she needs to figure this whole thing out
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14 Jun 2023
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When the Sun Rises by ineedyoursway
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
22 Oct 2021
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As a child, Alina is taken to the Little Palace and given over to the Darkling to train. But when she comes of age, she is to unite Ravka by marrying heir to the throne Vasily Lantsov.
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09 Apr 2023
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A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...
This story was inspired by the thought of Prince William of Wales (and indeed the current Max von Hapsburg) studying at the University of St Andrews; it is also, as the title suggests, at least a little inspired by the operetta 'The Student Prince'.
Grateful thanks to Lamardeuse and DarkEmeralds for Beta and cheerleading!
::2019 note: This story was written BEFORE the TV show introduced the character of Gwaine. It's not that I can't spell, or that I'm perversely writing him out of character - I incorporated other characters from Arthurian legend (Kay, Gawain etc) into my story, and lacking prophetic abilities, my versions naturally don't mesh with the versions subsequently introduced into the show.::
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- Part 1 of The student prince
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25 Feb 2022
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"The king sent me to get you," Merlin said, with a tone that implied strongly that he wasn't rolling his eyes where Arthur could see, but just wait until his back was turned. "He said you're to get changed into formal clothes and meet him in the Great Hall, there's a delegation coming from the Summer Court."
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- Part 12 of Astolat Sampler
- Part 11 of Merlin works
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13 Feb 2022