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A collection of moments before and after the infamous “eyes here” scene between Sloane Mairi and Dain Aetos.
Sloane Mairi never expected to survive Basgiath after her brother’s death, sometimes, she still isn’t sure she wants to. Once, she dreamed of reuniting with him here. Instead, all she finds is Dain Aetos.
Dain lectures. He orders. He interferes.
He saves her, too.
But Sloane knows better: he’s no protector.
He’s part of the reason Liam is gone.Dain Aetos’s world is coming undone. The values he’s lived by… order, control, obedience, no longer hold. And somehow, Sloane is always there, challenging him, unraveling him, pushing him to the edge.
He’s trying to make amends.
She’s determined to never forgive him.
What’s left between them is a tangle of guilt, grief, and something that feels dangerously close to forgiveness.Bookmarked by tinygardener
11 Jun 2025
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Imogen didn’t weep when her mother and sister burned for their part in the rebellion. She couldn’t afford to. The kingdom of Navarre had already decided her fate. Survival was a distant hope, a cruel joke in a world that wanted them dead.
Then Xaden Riorson made a deal.
In exchange for their lives, he would take their punishment and they, in turn, would be given one impossible chance: to enter the Riders Quadrant at Basgiath War College. A battlefield disguised as a school, where their only path to survival is bonding with a dragon and fighting for a kingdom that despises them.
Imogen and Garrick—both orphaned and stripped of everything they know—are placed together in the new foster system, forming an unbreakable bond as they navigate a world that sees them as traitors’ children. Forced to rely on each other for survival, their relationship deepens from an alliance of necessity into something far more complex.
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04 Jun 2025
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Sloane Mairi was forged in the fire of grief. Over the course of her short life, she’s grieved for her parents, her province and now, her brother. Sometimes, she worries that the flames of her grief and anger might consume her, devour her, if she lets them, but without them, how could she go on?
Dain Aetos isn’t sure who he is or what he’s doing. Lately, he’s begun to doubt everything he’s ever known, himself most of all. Lately, he’s been looking for answers to questions he’s never thought to ask before.
Could these two broken souls find solace in the unlikeliest of places: each other?
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31 May 2025
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After the Battle of Draithus, Sloane is confused by the weight of two haunting words—you're life. Like an echo from her past, igniting a wildfire of hidden memories, she turns to Dain.
With their squad's trust in command already in tatters, they lean on each other like never before. Working together, testing their loyalties, their power and questioning the truths they were raised to believe and fight for. This is an imagining of what comes next focusing on the Fourth Wing Squad. Not canon compliant but respective as RY is a bloody legend.
Long work in progress.
For slow burn start at chapter 2, for smut skip to 21, then 28 lol. Chapter 1 will be AI generated reference images, I update randomly.
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28 May 2025
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The Things We Do For Love by blackmorningstartail
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
23 Jun 2025
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🗡️ This is a special POV series for those of us who need more of our favorite Empyrean characters.
🗡️ Part 1 is dedicated to Imogen Cardulo and Garrick Tavis.
🗡️ POV chapters are arranged in chronological order as they’re added. 🖤
Series
- Part 1 of The POV Series
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26 May 2025