Interlude: Shahin 1
by Lyn Thorne-Alder“It looks like she’s succeeding.”  Shahin looked around the room.  They’d gathered in the Dining Hall, because nobody’s suite was large enough for this, and, because, as Kailani said, “we have nothing to hide, and we should not pretend that we do.  We’re not sneaking around, and nobody would trust the cy’ ( Read more... )

Interlude: Kailani
by Lyn Thorne-Alder“We’re not new kids anymore.” Kai looked around at the other Fifth Cohort students. Jamian was busy, but she’d talked Shahin into coming. Kendra was there, doing her best to hide in a corner; Channing was front and center. Elfred and Wyatt were there, along with Channing and Nydia. Kai had invited the entire ( Read more... )

This ficlet comes after: No Apple for Teacher, which followed Useful.
Both of those fics are after Retirement and Retirement 2: 50 years after the original series, Kai finds herself in possession of Rozen while she considers leaving Addergoole East.“You’re not teaching them enough!” Rozen’s voice was a roar. He knew he was getting way too loud, ( Read more... )

The meme is here: Give me the names of two characters and I will tell you why character A loves character B.

Here are
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Kai frowned at the charts in front of her: genealogies, descriptions, birth dates and years. You could follow patterns easily enough down any given genealogy, but that wasn’t what was making her frown ( Read more... )

Set ~50 years after Addergoole: the Original Series, after the "Retirement" stories.To her credit, his owner hadn't said "make yourself useful ( Read more... )

The Meme Master Post

S is for the shore, and the sky, and the storm

I was going to do another piece of Things Unspoken for this, but:

a) I just posted one, and I like to wait for feedback before posting the next.

b) I'm waiting for a city name and it seems weird.

c) I've written about Nereids and Octopi and am a bit tapped on oceanic things ( Read more... )

After the Storm, available to Patreon patrons, shows Kailani in a moment after the worst of the apocalypse has passed.

This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/909525.html. You can comment here or there.

March is Women's History Month, and so for March I'm doing vignettes about or questions regarding any of my female characters, one/day from the 10th-31st.

The prompt post is here; please add more prompts ;-)

This one comes from
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So a while ago I posted a meme, and I am slowly working my way through answering.

Kai/Rozen: AU (Where he does Keep her his first year) hereWhile this fic takes place in Mendosa's office, it comes with the implied warning that it is, after all, a Keeping fic ( Read more... )