Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
On Borrowed Paths by SapphicSlayer
Fandoms: Slay the Princess (Visual Novel), The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton
17 Mar 2025
Tags
Summary
Life has never been safe for a Borrower in a world governed by humans. Viewed as evil omens, any power-bearing “Fae” find themselves prey to black market circles where their fates are drawn to the highest bidder. And sometimes, the winners prefer to place them into the ring and hedge their bets even higher on a gladiatorial fight against something much, much worse.
As is the fate of a pair of escaped siblings, surviving in the woods by the skin of their teeth. But when evading their opponent proves too challenging, it may take deciding between trusting the owner of a nearby cabin or trying to outrun an enemy that can’t be killed.
But the tenants of that safe haven have one damning condition: they must reveal themselves to him first to be granted shelter. In order to make peace with the present, it may take unraveling the horrors of the past and the entwined destines between them all to save who still remains of all Borrowers, Cryptids, and Fae - and perhaps even the very forest itself.
When on Borrowed paths, some things cannot be returned.
[Non-Borrower folks: Think of it as “Inverse Tower.” No prior knowledge needed!]
Series