fake a smile
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fake a smile by crownedrooster
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
18 Dec 2023
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“I want to be Fitzroy Angursell again.”
The creature's eyes glittered. Magic stirred in the air and it suddenly dawned on me that I had made a grave mistake.
“No! No wait, no–”
“Done,” it hissed, and the world went black.Or: Fitzroy makes a wish that backfires
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- Part 1 of fake a smile
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but I know you know me too well by rattyjol
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
23 Jan 2024
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The music drifted up from between the floorboards, muffled but unmistakable. It filtered in from the window, too, overlooking the inn's front green, where the taproom doors and windows had been flung wide in celebration of Fitzroy Angursell’s triumphant return. Cliopher felt like a child banished upstairs for throwing a tantrum, stuck listening to the party going on below.
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- Part 2 of fake a smile
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tasted light but fed the dark by crownedrooster
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
04 Dec 2024
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“I don't care about what you want,” an Vilius snapped. “He's my best friend. He's family.” Anger was gleaming in his eyes. “And you broke his heart.”
Or: the Cavalier an Vilius and Fitzroy Angursell have a difficult conversation.
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- Part 3 of fake a smile
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but it's alright by crownedrooster
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
30 Jan 2024
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“What,” the creature crooned, its talons digging into the tree stump it was seated on, “is it that you want?”
A shiver went down my spine as the words resonated through me in a familiar way I could not quite place. I felt something lurking right at the edge of my memory, but I knew that it would only elude me if I tried to grasp it, so I shook my head and focused on the creature again.
(It is of the Ones born of the Fall, the Vangavayen god had said. A trickster, both like and unlike me. Be very careful with your words, little bard.)
“I want you to give me back what you took from me last time.”Or: Fitzroy gets his memories back
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- Part 4 of fake a smile
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say I'm doing just fine by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
24 Dec 2024
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Cliopher saw it the moment he stepped into the clearing.
His Radiancy had not described the creature that stole his memories at any point to Cliopher. Still, Cliopher looked at the winged creature before him, its head slowly tilting from side to side, forked tongue flickering through its lips as if to taste the air, and he knew.
The creature hissed, “What is it that you want?”
It was a little irritating that everybody had been right to insist that Cliopher go nowhere alone while they’d still been hunting for his Radiancy’s memories.
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Or, three encounters Cliopher has with the creature after Fitzroy gets his memories back.
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- Part 5 of fake a smile
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I don't deserve your company by fire_eyes_chica
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
16 Mar 2025
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It's not common to fall in love with the same person twice, but Fitzroy Angursell and Cliopher Mdang have always had a knack for the exceptional.
Five times that Fitzroy falls in love with Cliopher (again), and one time that Cliopher falls in love with Fitzroy.
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- Part 6 of fake a smile
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nothing's wrong, nothing's right by rattyjol
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Red Company Reformed Series - Victoria Goddard
17 Jun 2025
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The storm blew itself out quickly, as Fitzroy’s storms often did.
They tidied up the refuge, and talked, and ate, and Pali pretended that she was not pricklingly aware of the door at her back and its failure to open. Fitzroy was not in any danger; he had disappeared more inopportunely, and for longer, and always returned whole and hale and often with a new song. And yet the conversation, and Pali’s thoughts, seemed to curve back to him no matter which way they went, like a path in a Faerie wood.
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- Part 7 of fake a smile
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no sleep, no sleep by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
28 Oct 2025
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It took me a few minutes after waking to realize that something was wrong.
At first I could not place what had woken me at all, head hazy enough with sleep that I could not place where or when I was. My mind bounced off the stillness and quiet of the air, ricocheted against the too-soft cushion beneath me, and pinged against the distant, muffled sounds of voices and eventually, helpfully, told me inn. Only after that did I place Kip’s breathing, and even then I thought, stupidly, foolishly, that he had only moved around a bit and woken me.
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A nightmare, an invitation, and the untangling of a knot.
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- Part 8 of fake a smile