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1. You've Known Me All Along by slytherin_pen for We_were_beautiful

   Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Xaden Riorson/Reader
   • Xaden Riorson/Original Female Character(s)
   • Imogen Cardulo & Reader
   • Garrick Tavis & Reader
   • Bodhi Durran & Reader
   • Sawyer Henrick & Reader
   • Liam Mairi & Reader
   • Rhiannon Matthias & Reader
   • Ridoc Gamlyn & Reader
   • Xaden Riorson
   • Reader
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Imogen Cardulo
   • Garrick Tavis
   • Bodhi Durran
   • Liam Mairi
   • Rhiannon Matthias
   • Ridoc Gamlyn
   • Sawyer Henrick
   • Reader-Insert
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
   • POV First Person
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Friends to Lovers
   • idiots to lovers
   • Protective Xaden Riorson
   • Protective Imogen Cardulo
   • Protective Garrick Tavis
   • Protective Bodhi Durran
   • Protective Liam Mairi
   • Reader is marked
   • Imogen & Reader were fostered together
   • Book 1: Fourth Wing (Empyrean)
   • Mutual Pining
   • Background Imogen Cardulo/Garrick Tavis

   Summary

   Today is Conscription Day. The day I finally reunite with my friends--if I can manage to cross the Parapet and join the Rider's Quadrant. I haven't seen Imogen in a year, and the others for even longer. It feels like walking into my worst nightmare. I'm forced to attend Basgiath and one day join the army that executed my family, all because they want to be liars. I don't know what the plan is, or how we're all going to survive. Will we stay together or go our separate ways? All I know is the moment I spot Xaden Riorson, I can no longer think straight.

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