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Through Your Eyes by sorrow_key for francisque, ally_mcgee
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
15 Apr 2024
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Will closed his eye again, embarrassingly exhausted already from the strain of keeping it focused. “You should be more careful.”
“It's not a long way. And you should focus on your own health, you know.”
Will snorted and immediately regretted it when it sent a fresh wave of pain through him. “Are you calling me selfless, Mistress Chandler? That would be a first.”
“No. I am calling you careless.” Her tender fingers taking the cup from his fingers and straightening the sheets around him softened the sharp edges of her words. “It's dangerous to focus so much on what you want that you forget what you need.”
(In which Fitz wasn't entirely wrong about Molly finding a new love.)
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Out of Time by sorrow_key for KelsingraByNight
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb
01 Jan 2024
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"No longer will you doubt me, my dear luriks," Dwalia told us with a sickly sweetness that reminded me of her initial treatment of me. "We are leaving and I know just where we are going."
"Where?" Alaria asked immediately, doubt and longing warring in her voice. "Is it close to Clerres? It has been so long."
Dwalia swiftly crossed the distance towards her and slapped her with such force that Reppin startled awake from her sleep and even the Chalcedean stumbled in his lonesome dance. "Do not question me again, Alaria!" Then, her face regained its unnatural smile. "Soon, you will see. Soon, everyone will see. They are liars, both of them! But I know the truth now and soon everyone will know it too."
Or, in which the line between dead and alive is not quite so firm.
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After the Fire by sorrow_key for KelsingraByNight
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb
30 Dec 2023
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Or, writings from Clerres.
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Such A Likely Tale by sorrow_key
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
31 Aug 2023
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The captain and Regal both gaped at him. "Why would you talk about him like that? Chivalry is dead, you dolt!"
Verity barely listened to Regal's shout. He was reaching, outwards, inwards, anywhere, to find any trace of Chivalry. Chivalry was better at that than he was, he'd managed to turn his force to subtlety by his own power, was good at hiding away his Skill sense and strength and making himself into a shadow where once he'd been right in the brightest of the light. There was nothing. No assurances that all was well, no shared pain, not even any last words. Nothing.
The first time Verity learns of Chivalry's death, he makes a joke. It takes him a while to realise it is very real.
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A Guy Like You Should Wear a Warning by vividlightning
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
12 Mar 2025
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Will had never considered a career in slave trade before Amber suggested it. “It is the perfect chance, Will,” she insisted. “You will get to know everyone in the trade. I have long needed someone on that side of things. There is just so much going on that I need to know! Of course you would not be keeping any actual slaves,” she said. “Besides me of course.” Amber winked. That had finally picked Will’s interest.
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When Fitz didn’t return to his life after the Farseer trilogy, he left an opening for someone to step in.
[Title for this fic is from Britney Spears: Toxic]
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20 Sep 2024
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They’ve been working it out slowly in the two months since that awful night—it being something romantic, something that’s quite frankly more than dating, yet not all that different in shape from what existed before.
Point is, as much as Charles loves Crystal, a little time just for him and Edwin had sounded…nice. And probably needed. Except now she won’t be back until Thursday.
Which is fine. Totally fine. No outside rescue just means that they have to save themselves, that they have to figure this out solo—the two of them against the world, just like old times.
Nothing ever went wrong back then.
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In which a case goes wrong, the boys have an awful time, and - for Christ's sake - there aren't enough blades around for us both to fall on our sword, Charles.
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06 Sep 2024
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Charles hates enclosed spaces. Edwin minds them much less than he should. Neither of them is very happy about it.
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Or: Edwin and Charles get locked in an iron coffin together, the fic.
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06 Sep 2024
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It should have been just another case for the Dead Boy Detective Agency - a pair of missing ghosts to find - if not for the fact that they had to investigate a luxury resort dedicated to couples counselling... for ghosts. And what better way for Edwin and Charles to infiltrate it than to pretend to be just another couple needing to revive their relationship?
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27 Aug 2024
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There was once a girl who wrote a story about cats, and how she always seemed to come across them where they had been left to die. She buried them. She put them out of their misery. She learned to carry a shovel.
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22 Aug 2024