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    There were many such stories, he had read, where a fisherman would fall in love with a selkie and take her coat so she would forever remain a human. They would marry, then, and likely have children.

    "A happy ending," his mother had said with a soft smile, reading to him by his bedside, and quietly snuffed the candle out to tuck him in.

    What a cruel thing, he had always thought. To fall in love with something so beautiful and different, only to trap it in a world where it doesn't belong.

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    21 Jul 2024

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    Martin doesn't come back from the Lonely, and Jon does something rash, and then he has certain... conflicts with his new role in the world.

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    18 Dec 2019

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    The set of Yuuri’s mouth softened into a private smile as Victor squeezed his knee beneath the table. His hands were bare, free from the gloves he so often wore when they were together on the rink, and the heat of his palm burned straight through the denim of Yuuri’s jeans. He slipped his own hand beneath the table and found Victor’s. Hidden from sight, their fingers began to flirt and play. A secret conversation all their own that needed no words.

    Yuuri was aware that at some point—a moment in time he couldn’t quite place—Victor had become his boyfriend.

    There wasn’t a single instant when it happened. It was a slow awareness, as if Victor had silently been asking the question for months now, and Yuuri had been giving him the answer a little more with each passing day.

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    10 Jan 2017

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    In another universe, Cordelia never returns to Barrayar. Simon Illyan attempts to pick up the pieces of the shattered wreck that is Aral Vorkosigan, and the Regency spirals off in a very different direction. An AU spanning post-Escobar to Regency-era, a story about survivors, swords, and sharp edges.

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    30 Jul 2016

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    A startling confession sends Miles Vorkosigan's life to the left when it might have gone to the right. Miles/Gregor, AU post-Memory.

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    03 Jan 2016