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Alone again, with the pancakes not due to flip for another minute or so going by the lack of bubbles on the pale doughy surfaces, Will takes a deep breath and presses the backs of his knuckles into his eyes with a groan.
He tells himself sternly to knock it off, because there's certainly no point in it.
It's one matter to stand against the world as a person more hated than just about anything and to have comrades defend your honor and right to exist. It's another matter entirely, Will thinks, to imagine that he can… partake, in that same society, in all the same ways everyone else can.
In which Will has some hangups about what is tacitly forbidden to him by virtue of being an elda amidst a nation that would prefer to see him dead. Along the way to untangling that complicated knot of internalized taboo, Basilio fights his own old long-standing battles. Together, perhaps, the impasses holding them both down might be broken.
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28 Nov 2024
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In a world riddled with classism and prejudice, the regal king Hythlodaeus makes a decision borne out of equal measures love and desperation; he declares his son a clemar. And so young prince Will grows up in the palace, sheltered from the cruel ways of the Royal capital. But fate is not so easily swayed of its destined path, and on his sixteenth birthday Will meets the illustrious count Louis, who has his own vision for who will sit on the throne.
Louis had a dream, one that involved a little less bloodshed and a lot more subtlety, and it all started with winning the king’s favor. The crown was something he earned, and if it meant he’d have to get rid of the prince, well... the young boy suited his bedchambers much more anyway.
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19 Nov 2024
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Louis watches him with great interest, his smoldering gaze mirroring the same expression he had given Will yesterday. It only now occurs to Will that Louis likely wants much more than the chaste kisses he had envisioned placating him with; the sun has completely disappeared under the horizon and dim light casts long shadows across Louis’ form, who looks as though he wants to absolutely devour him.
In which Will decides to take matters of saving the prince into his own hands by flirting with the enemy, and in return gets more enthusiasm than he anticipated. Louis has taken a shine to him and Will must navigate their transactional relationship while also plotting to bring about his demise.
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- Part 1 of Perilous Encounters
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19 Nov 2024
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