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The Tourakom-Goldenlake System of Communication by Emnot
Fandoms: PIERCE Tamora - Works, Tortall - Tamora Pierce
03 Aug 2020
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"How long have we known each other?" Her voice felt rusty.
Raoul was sprawled next to her on the bed. He blinked at the ceiling and cracked his neck. "Twenty years?"
"Twenty years," Buri sighed. She felt like steam was rising off both of them. "We could have been doing this for twenty years."
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Sometimes it takes a while to go from friends to lovers. But it helps if you can read each other's minds.
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05 Aug 2025
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The snow is thick on the ground when the Goddess appears in his kitchen, taller than usual and holding an axe.
George eyes the axe warily. “What’s all this about?”
“She has deviated from the plan,” the Goddess tells George, voice tight.
“Your plan had some holes to begin with,” remarks George.
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The best-laid plans of gods and men often go sideways. George/Alanna feat. interfering deities.
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05 Aug 2025
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George slammed her up against the wall. Big hands went to her waist and the back of her neck. “You just killed eight men.” His voice was barely audible, and his eyes were glittering.
Alanna swallowed and gave a half-shrug. “I missed you,” she said lightly.
__________Alanna killed for Jon, but she would murder for George. Set after Lioness Rampant.
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“Should we talk about what just happened?” Baird asked, voice very low.
“Talk about how an eleven-year-old child opened a doorway to divine power?” said Myles. “Or talk about how that child did so to save the prince from an unnatural disease sent to disable the line of succession? Or talk about how that child is likely now a prime target for whoever sent it?”
“We could talk about how we’re not referring to that child as a boy, right now,” offered Baird, and Myles took a sharp breath.
"For that child’s sake, we should talk about none of this.”
_______________SOTL through POTS from the realm's Chief Healer, who has a very good heart. Also, Wilina.
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05 Aug 2025
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to heed the voice of honor by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
21 Sep 2017
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Kel sat and thought about it all through the long summer-- thought about joining the Riders when she turned sixteen, or going back to the Yamani Isles with her parents, or running away to become an unlawful bandit hunter. She drank tea with her mother and accepted her quiet sympathy. She wondered what was going to happen to Peachblossom. She did her morning glaive practice dances in the heady air of the tiny courtyard garden of her parents' townhouse, where the cook grew herbs and spices in big overflowing boxes.
Summer rolled on. She sat, and she thought, and she did not tell her thoughts to anyone. On the first day of what would have been her second year of page training, she woke before the sun and had a quiet breakfast with her father, and then she jogged up the big dusty hill to the palace.
When the pages trailed out to the practice yards with dubious enthusiasm, she was waiting just outside their ground. Her chin was high, her shoulders loose while her hands gripped her weighted staff.
"Probationer," Wyldon barked out her, when one of the boys went to fetch him. "Was I unclear in the spring?"
Kel stared him down, fingers white on her staff, and said, "I'm not a probationer anymore."
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