lebateleur: A picture of the herb sweet woodruff (Default)
( Mar. 10th, 2024 10:23 pm)
I haven't really managed much writing over the past two weeks, so let's see if we can get things back on track.

Imperial Radch / post-canon / currently untitled
"Actually, it's the opposite," said Seivarden. Temperature and blood pressure spiking. Worried that whatever she was about to say next would upset me. "It's not older than Breq—than Justice of Toren, that is. It's younger."

"That's not possible," I said.


これで以上です。
lebateleur: A picture of the herb sweet woodruff (Default)
( Feb. 25th, 2024 09:21 pm)
Have I really managed to do this for the second week running? Why yes, I have!

Imperial Radch / post-canon / currently untitled
“They came right up to the gate, jettisoned a bunch of...something, and then gated away again.”

“Whatever it is, it’s not mines,” said Seivarden. "Definitely not mines," Ship said in my ear, "Or any other kind of armament I’ve ever seen."

“Fleet Captain,” said Kalr Twelve nine minutes later, when the communications from her transport pod finally reached us. “It’s suspension pods. Hundreds and hundreds of them.”


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lebateleur: A picture of the herb sweet woodruff (Default)
( Feb. 19th, 2024 04:51 am)
Oh hey, I actually remembered it was Sunday, which means I'm actually in time to post this for once.

Imperial Radch / post-canon / currently untitled

I woke fourteen minutes earlier than I had intended. The bed was cold; Seivarden must have risen some time before. I turned to the counter, expected to see her there making tea, but she was not. Then fought the urge to query Ship, to see where she had gone, to see whether any of my Kalrs were idle or working nearby and could be spared from their duties. I had dressed myself, brewed my own tea for twenty years before becoming captain of Mercy of Kalr. I could do so again now. I did not need anyone to dance attendance upon me.


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lebateleur: A picture of the herb sweet woodruff (Default)
( Jul. 10th, 2022 09:18 pm)
Hey, I've never posted a Six Sentence Sunday before, so why not start now?

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(The Goblin Emperor series)


Azhanharad had only just returned from overseeing the execution of one of Amalo's more vicious footpads when the courier brought word that his mother had died. He saw to the remainder of his duties at the Chapterhouse and then fled to the Vedriveise Gambit where he sat for the better part of the night, the letter crumpled in one hand as his tea cooled on the table before him, untouched.

The news was not, strictly speaking, unexpected, nor was it an unalloyed grief. His mother had been failing for years; had not even known who he was the last three seasons he had visited. But his duties in Amalo--to the city and to the Brotherhood--were many, and his visits were thus far less frequent than he would have wished.

Still, he had not been with her in the end and for that he could not forgive himself, no matter how hard he tried to pretend otherwise.


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