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By remaining in Narnia, and not going home again, Lucy had purposefully thrown herself in the path of fate, making herself the obstacle to derail the terrible train of events from its determined track, which had the prophesied end of all Narnia at its end, and her own premature death in a ruined railway carriage. She wasn’t going to let that happen. She had made of herself a lodestone, pulling fate out of its accustomed course. Inevitably, she would leave change in her wake. She meant it to be so, for the preservation of all.
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- Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
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The sort of beauty that's called human by lotesse
Fandoms: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
10 Apr 2026
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“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”
No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.
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- Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
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The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.
Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.
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- Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
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Gravity wells. You had to watch out for the effects of gravity wells. Cordelia had known that, when she’d been a captain in the Betan Expeditionary Service. How had she come to be so completely eclipsed by the gravitational pull of Barrayar?
“Miles is out of Simon's reach at the present moment. I'm not sure that he's out of mine. Mark and I can’t stay here any longer. I’m going to go retrieve my heart. I find that I can’t quite live without it. I must pay my own tribute to Aral’s memory, in my own way. Please understand this, and forgive me.”
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Oh, you tireless watcher, What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?
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Caesura in a story (that’s still being written) by lotesse
Fandoms: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë, Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
14 Jun 2023
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a piece cut off – as in the origin of the word comma:
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Surprised by joy, impatient as the Wind by lotesse
Fandoms: The Frederica Quartet - A. S. Byatt
27 Nov 2022
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That was what she had said it had been like, going to bed with Daniel. A revelation. Stephanie had not known it, until there it was falling out of her mouth to smolder like a coal amid the cool silver tea- and coffee-service of the hotel cafe, to electrify and upset Frederica.
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- 345
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After all, Neal fell in love the first time he and Mozzie worked together. And not with Mozzie.
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That bearing boughs may live by lotesse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Oct 2022
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“This is where,” Elanor said, planting her feet broad and solid. “We’ll settle here.”
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Vorkosigan Vashnoi: for years now, it had loomed large in Dr. Ekaterin Vorsoisson’s mind. Perhaps it was inevitable that Ekaterin’s work in planetary ecology and recovery would lead her to a fascination with the ruined city, and a meeting with its tall, serious Count.
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- Part 6 of A case of you
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For east or west all woods must fail by lotesse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Oct 2022
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On his adventure, true fear first came for Sam when he saw the roots of the willow by the side of the sleepy stream in the Old Forest close over Frodo’s head at the river’s edge, and also around their companions, leaving Sam alone uncaught.
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- 200
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“To dare to pluck a rose,” a sweet, melodious voice murmured, sounding close, too close. Ray jumped and dropped the flower. The guy who had snuck up on him was too good-looking to be true. Eyes more blue than the sea. Waves of crisp, dark hair. Lips as soft and pink and curled-up as a rosebud. And also wearing a kilt.
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Frodo filled out and filed the marriage documents when he, like so many others in the year 1420, fell pregnant. He let the final letter of its name show its legal tail, and only Sam and their witnesses saw it.
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Seeing the way the two heads, brown and white-pale, drifted together as the boys sat enjoying one last respite before the coming dark, Merriman knew that Will’s loves were braver, in their way, than his own, and he honored the spirit that paid its homage in spite of fate. That accepting grace was a challenge he had yet to master, his inclination still drifting to bitterness and inexorable grudge. Will hated not, but loved, and cared, and tried, and went on. In that, there was much he could learn from the young Old One who had once been his pupil, and Merriman was not too stiff-necked to deny the lesson.
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With your face sketched on it twice by lotesse
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
03 Oct 2022
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Ekaterin did a double-take. It was the same voice, and the same small-scale form, as that of her erstwhile supposed rescuer. But not only the accent was different, broad Betan rather than warm Barrayar. The little man revealed beneath the helmet radiated a crackling corona of manic energy, not at all the same as the quiet, supportive focus she’d felt from him before.
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- Part 5 of A case of you
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On the back of a cartoon coaster by lotesse
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
05 Sep 2022
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As Ekaterin worked her way through the medical and disability systems of the capital city of her home planet, one name kept coming to her notice: Miles, Lord Vorkosigan, founder and chair of the Barrayaran Disabled Children’s Crusade. The materials branded with that organization name, or that referred to Lord Vorkosigan personally in their metadata or introductory sections, were consistently reliable, up-to-date, and compassionate and humane in outlook, actually useful resources instead of technical-medical jargon or over-broad unhelpful platitudes.
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- Part 4 of A case of you
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Stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed by lotesse
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
02 Sep 2022
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After Tien settled back in bed, Ekaterin slid out again to the comconsole in the relative privacy of her workroom. She was going to have to figure this one out. There was no one there but her. She looked up, and then dialed, the number at ImpSec Serifosa. Time to break some oaths, and keep others.
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- Part 3 of A case of you
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Drawn to those ones that ain't afraid by lotesse
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
30 Aug 2022
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The thing about living with Ekaterin’s Aunt Vorthys was, you ended up meeting the most fascinating women.
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- Part 2 of A case of you
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If you want me I'll be in the bar by lotesse
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
29 Aug 2022
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Some young men, pressing in around the bar, started to cheer, and Ekaterin left off trying to talk to her friends, peering around instead to try and see what all the fuss was about.
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- Part 1 of A case of you
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Does Nandor continue to return stern words, harsh gestures, albeit interspersed with moments of disarming tenderness, because he does not care at all for Guillermo?
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- 100
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- 1/1
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