12 Works by longk
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"If that first church had been a little spark in the fabric of Clorinde’s faith, then the Opera Epiclese is a bonfire roaring its prayers to the open sky. Lady Furina’s most ardent followers congregate in the lobby, clutching newspapers and playbills as their hymn-books, giving everything they have to the spectacle of the court and stage. And their Archon soaks up the spotlight, growing bigger and brighter with every shouted word of praise. Clorinde does not shout, but she feels it rattle through her, as world-breaking as a kiss, and she thinks of the audience as the waves of an ocean buying Lady Furina towards the sun.
And then Clorinde is twenty, and Clorinde is undefeated, and Clorinde is face-to-face with her Archon for the first time in her life."
In which Clorinde has a crisis of faith.
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“Lady Furina doesn’t listen to anyone,” Jacqueline says. “And a good thing, too — what sort of Archon would she be if she went around taking mortals’ advice? But for everything else she is, she’s reasonable. If the Iudex really is…” she lowers her voice, disbelief painted across every inch of her strong features, “A thief, surely the God of Justice has a right to know.”
Neuvillette's official introduction is over, but a new problem has arisen. Sequel to Tails From The Court.
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- Part 2 of a natural imbalance
- Part 7 of i drink the air before me and return
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Noun: cast-off material. Verb: to discard. Slang: to fight.
Sigewinne watches over the Fortress of Meropide's newest inmate.
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"Oh great Hauteclaire, Sword of Light! By your blade were so many conflicts settled in peace, and the ravages of war laid to rest in these lands.
One day there shall be one nobler than I, seven times more so, who will lift you again, and they shall do deeds seven times greater."
- La Chanson d'Erinnyes
Furina, the Hauteclaire, and the interminable passage of time.
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- Part 6 of i drink the air before me and return
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“Does that happen a great deal?”
“Oh, every now and then,” Furina lies, flicking her wrist as if the attention is nothing more than an annoying insect buzzing about her head — something to be crushed, and discarded, kept at bay with scented smoke. “I’m quite a big star now, you know!”
“The pride of Fontaine,” says Neuvillette softly, and Furina realises he must have seen her in the tabloids. How mortifying. “Which is what I was hoping to speak to you about, as it happens.”
Two years after Neuvillette and Furina break up, a letter arrives in Furina’s dressing-room at the Opera Epiclese.
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What To Get The Dragon Who Has Everything by longk
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Dec 2024
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“So you just sell nothing? Now, of all times?! This won’t do at all.” She is whining, she knows, and she would be embarrassed if she wasn’t so desperate. She imagines Neuvillette’s face falling beneath a little party hat as he realises that she hasn’t gotten him a birthday present. That she couldn’t even give him that. “You have to have something, I’m the Arch—”
Furina struggles to find a birthday gift for Neuvillette.
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- Part 5 of i drink the air before me and return
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"But try as she might, she cannot focus. Her mind keeps drifting back, time and time again, to the broken body of the Great Detective Hurlock at the bottom of the sea — his clothes torn, his clever head split open on the rocks. To loyal Armand Sacquer, penning story after story in the years afterwards as if the sheer act of remembering would bring his lost friend home."
In which Furina has some opinions about a certain author’s decision-making. Written for Auldnoire’s Furitober Day 9: Literature.
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- Part 3 of i drink the air before me and return
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""It was interesting, at first, to notice how huma— ahem, how other humans talked about death. But then she offered me a funeral package.”
Neuvillette closes his eyes. He doesn’t want to talk about this. He doesn’t want to have to think about it, not when it will be inescapable soon enough. Live, he wants to beg her. Stay with me forever. It would be so easy to ensure her survival. But she has lived far longer than any human would wish to, and withstood far more pain and fear than any other human could have survived. He has no right to ask this of her.
“Did you take it?” He asks. He does not want to know the answer."
Furina returns from Liyue with a newfound lease on life.
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- Part 4 of i drink the air before me and return
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"Neuvillette does not remember a great deal from his past life, but he remembers his tail. He remembers the feeling of it, strong and heavy behind him. He remembers how he had swum with it, how he had fought with it, though the memory of those waters and those battles had been torn from the fabric of his being along with his Authority. All that remains is the tail, the lost limb of it aching in the dead of night as he tries to sleep in a body that does not exist."
The scales of justice are perfectly balanced. Neuvillette is... less so.
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- Part 2 of i drink the air before me and return
- Part 1 of a natural imbalance
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“You could be a gull as well,” Sara had offered, although she could not quite see it. If Yoimiya were to be a bird, she would be something small and clever, living in a flock of brightly-coloured other birds whose plumage was never quite as vibrant as her own.
But Yoimiya had shaken her head. “I’d want to be a goldfish,” she said. “They’re very cute, and they live such simple, happy lives. People say they only have short memories, but I don’t think that’s it. I just think maybe they’re better at letting things go.”
Sara had knotted the last rope with a little more force than necessary, feeling a strange weight in the bottom of her chest. “I don’t think I would make a very good goldfish.”
Sara celebrates her birthday beneath a sky full of light.
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“Did you celebrate the new year before your Ascension?”
Furina stiffens. It is almost imperceptible: only Neuvillette, with whom she has shared the opening dance of every ball since he took up the mantle of Iudex, would know the movement of her body well enough to notice. “I…” A heartbeat, and she seems to flicker between a hundred different faces before that familiar put-on dismissiveness takes over. “I don’t remember,” she says. “Why do you care?”
Two hundred years after Neuvillette arrives in Fontaine, so does Lantern Rite. So does the year of the dragon. And so does rain.
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- Part 1 of i drink the air before me and return
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”It’s a hazy afternoon on the tail end of summer when Zhongli looks at Childe and realises he never wants to look at anything else for the rest of his life.
The revelation comes with no fanfare. Nothing changes, nothing breaks. It’s simply a fact. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. Violetgrass wilts in the heat, and Zhongli is terribly, irreversibly in love.”
Or: in which Zhongli falls in love, falls out of the sky, falls from grace, and falls into bed with Liyue’s Public Enemy Number Eleven. In exactly that order.