Archive of Our Own

Summary:

The dreams of the Blood accrue in the Darkness, countless whispers and wisps of thought, a tangle of imagery spun out of every sleeping mind. Sometimes, when a pressing need consumes the thoughts and hearts of the Blood, the Darkness gives birth to a woman who can answer that need. She is Witch, dreams incarnated.

But other times, there is no pressing need. There is no great cause calling Witch out of the Darkness. Instead, dreams -- wild and random, beautiful and heartbreaking, manic and arbitrary and gorgeous -- coalesce on their own, spilling into the waking world in the form of Witch, a myth come to life.

This time, her name is Roueneil.

 

This is a canon-compliant story of one of Witch's other incarnations, assuming that Draca was correct about the variety of ways and reasons she is reborn. Roueneil is not Black-Jeweled, not a Queen, and not here to save the world. None of the original characters will appear; this is set in an entirely different time. Mentions of violence, torture, rape, etc will be about on par with Bishop's novels. There are M/F, M/M, and F/F pairings, but only for secondary characters. No love interest for Witch this time around/at this point in her life.