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1. Hold Out and Hold Onto You  by ThatWouldBee_Enough

   Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   02 May 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Xaden Riorson/Violet Sorrengail
   • Xaden Riorson
   • Burton Varrish
   • Dain Aetos
   • Violet Sorrengail
   • POV Xaden Riorson
   • Interrogation
   • Torture
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Feels
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Blood and Violence
   • Blood
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Book 2: Iron Flame (Empyrean)
   • Basgiath War College (Empyrean)
   • Minor Character Death

   Summary

   What would happen if Xaden Riorson had been captured and tortured rather than Violet after their heist in the Archives?

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   And if I’m in an interrogation chamber…

   Dread pools like lava in my stomach, hot and painful as it twists my insides because if I’m in an interrogation chamber then where is Violet?

   My breathing turns frantic as I struggle uselessly against my bonds, reaching for a signet that I know I can’t access without Sgaeyl’s power. I claw through my memories for anything that might help, any way to get out of this trap, but I come up empty.

   I’m just as powerless as I was seven years ago, watching my father burn before my eyes.  

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