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Beautiful but cold, Prince Laurent of Arles has vowed to marry only the one to best him in a footrace. The winner will get his hand in marriage - and the power and influence that come with it - but the price of failure is death.
The latest in a long string of suitors to attempt Laurent’s challenge and lose is Prince Kastor of Ios. Damen, desperate to save his brother’s life, travels to Arles himself to participate in the race. Once there, however, he quickly realizes that Laurent desires to marry him about as much as he desires to marry Laurent - that is to say, not at all.
Rather than risk being trapped in a marriage that would make them both miserable, they agree to a different wager: if Damen wins the race, Laurent will let Kastor go, but if he loses, Damen will have to stay in Arles for a year, doing Laurent’s bidding.- Language:
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21 Jul 2025
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Laurent was crowned on the next full moon. He knelt in the damp grass, as Herode held the Erlking’s crown over his head, and the whole forest held its breath.
Laurent dipped his head, and Herode placed it on his brow. The woven circlet of brambles gleamed black in the waning moonlight, the berries red and shining and smooth, full to bursting. It settled into place slowly, nestled into his hair, the thorns not quite piercing his skin.
Afterwards, the revelries began, sumptuous and wild enough that those who had attended would be telling the tale for generations. Laurent smiled and charmed and flattered. He danced with a dark-haired maiden with skin like bark and a dress made of small, translucent bones. He took a wild, reckless ride on the back of a golden-eyed pooka, and they galloped over streams and across valleys and in thin, winding paths that sneaked among the trees. With a man who had eyes like an owl and teeth like a wolf, Laurent shared fizzy wine that tasted like laughter and looked like sunlight.
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21 Jul 2025
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“I hate you,” Laurent says, heart hammering in his chest. He regrets the words the moment they’re out of his mouth.
Auguste leans back as though Laurent has physically struck him, mouth open.
(Laurent sneaks out one morning. Auguste is, quite understandably if you asked him, very worried.)
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24 Jun 2025
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I will find you, Anharion had said. I will always find you.
Try to run.But of course Sarcean had taken his words as a warning, rather than a threat. Because why run when you could lay a trap.
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22 May 2025
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Caught on the brink of destruction under the overwhelming force of the invading Eastern Empire, Prince Valerian makes the hard decision to accept a peace treaty instead. That it means he'll now be a hostage married to the man he swore to fight to his last dying breath is only the start of everything he finds offensive about it, but his people come first.
He tells himself that he will never stop hating the man who forced this choice upon him. He tells himself a lot of things, and can only hope that all of them stay true.
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12 May 2025
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“Lan Zhan is such a well-behaved girl,” Madam Yu said.
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21 Oct 2022
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In The Dark Right Now by phnelt
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
18 Aug 2020
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What used to be a wide open cave mouth, propped up with stalactites and mites, has collapsed, leaving a wall of uneven rock. Caving is always a danger, but they’d thought this cave was pretty safe for their study of bat behaviours. The colony living in it is stable, had been here for at least fifty years, and of course the cave has been here for millennia. Nothing going wrong for so long and then a bunch of rocks falling? It’s just his luck, really.
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- Part 6 of phnelt's phaves
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20 Oct 2022
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Waiting spilled out and followed Erasmus throughout the day, smooth and viscous like oil, snaking about his arms and entwining with Torveld’s hair as he washed it, staining Torveld’s robes as he folded them. At his leisure hours, Torveld brought it to his lips together with the slices of fruit Erasmus gave him.
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21 Aug 2022
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At thirteen, a boy named Laurent Devere had gone into the woods with his uncle.
What had come out was wrong. He was wrong.
He was not Laurent.
He was a changeling, and he needed to find a way to bring Laurent home.
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04 Aug 2022
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Nicaise escapes the palace with his life and a stolen letter. He does his best to help Prince Laurent but it's hard when you're young and angry and the prince gets distracted by things like vengeance and love.
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03 Aug 2022
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the steady running of the hour by jinlinli for quinn195
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
25 Sep 2017
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Kastor, dead on the steps; Damen, barely conscious; and Laurent, miraculously alive and unharmed. A bloody knife on the floor beside the two of them. There must be a keen horror in the sight.
The last time they had been in a bath together, they were in Arles, and Laurent had just discovered that he looked exactly like the kind of man his brother’s killer would want to fuck. The irony is not lost on him now.
The days following Kings Rising. In which Damen is bed ridden, the threat of war hangs over the two kingdoms, and Laurent is alone.
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03 Aug 2022
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"I think," Damianos said softly, "that you have not been treated the way you deserve."
For the first time in his life, Laurent did not know what to say back.
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09 Jul 2022
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King Laurent said, "There is a child."
"I see!" said Charls, who didn't.
"His family are unable to care for him. He was brought here by my late uncle," King Laurent said. "I would appreciate it if you would take him on as an apprentice."
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04 Jul 2022
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My Co-Worker May Be A Robot Space Alien, But He's Definitely A Superhero by SkullSummonerMina
Fandoms: Original Work
31 Oct 2020
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David is an alcoholic office worker with a past full of regrets. Jules is a space alien and maybe a robot. Together they fight crime.
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28 Jun 2022
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Terran leave |ˈtɛrən liːv| n. The abandonment of work or duty without permission, executed in the dramatic fashion typical of the Terran race.
An account of First Mate Fred Lahiri’s enigmatic and not at all commented upon departure from the salvage ship Octothorpe, its effect on the long-suffering crew, and the entirely rational course of action undertaken by the captain to bring him back.
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26 Jun 2022
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“I’m sorry this happened to you,” Adrian said to Eric, who was still staring at him. Adrian was used to that; even before the fire, with his numerous scars and gruff demeanor, many people would stare longer at him than most strangers. But now that he had the burn scars, uglier than any of his others, now that he limped and used a cane, those stares lasted far longer than usual. Just another reason why he rarely left campus.
But there was something different about the way Eric looked at him, something unnerving in his gaze, in those almost unnaturally amber eyes… Adrian couldn’t quite place it, but he almost felt as though they’d met before.
He wasn’t sure what he was expecting from the boy, perhaps for him to be fearful, or even angry, at being uprooted from whatever his life had been before. But he certainly wasn’t expecting Eric to shrug his shoulders, and for his mouth to pull up into a smile.
“I’m not,” Eric said. “It’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”
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After a lifetime of vampire hunting, a mission-gone-bad sends Adrian into retirement. He starts teaching at a school for supernatural beings… and one day, a new student walks in.
One that feels very familiar.
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- Part 8 of Rubick's Original Works
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25 Jun 2022
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