My Yuletide Story!
It is absolutely gorgeous.
Companion
Imriel/Sidonie (from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy), PG-13
Love stories in a Mendacant's tales start with Once Upon a Time and end in Happily Ever After. In life, there's neither. She thinks perhaps the stories have been all used up by their forefathers, and the reality left for her is simpler, and so much more complicated. She's not even sure that she'd call this a love story, this gravity between them.
It's from the point of view of Princess Sidonie, Ysandre's daughter and heir to the throne in Terre D'Ange. In Kushiel's Legacy she and Imriel had UST like mad, and their dance around each other was one of my favourite sub-plots of the book. This story looks at Sidonie's view of their relationship and it's just as lovely and gorgeously written as the canon is.
Some of my favourite lines from it:
She feels Imriel's eyes on her from across the dance floor even as she turns her back on him, and it should make her hold her head that much higher, bearing up under the weight of his expectations or in defiance of them. Cross me at your peril, her body language should be screaming across the room, but those ingrained reactions don't come as easily as they should with him.
He doesn't seem to realize that he's always been the monster under her bed.
-snip-
Oath or no oath, she knows him first, foremost, and always as the son of Melisande, blood of angels and traitors. The marks of that blood are in his eyes: a dark, roiling anger, a tension pulling him into knots, a pulse of electricity buried just below the surface. He's still a monster. He's just a monster who's handed her his leash.
Her heart beats that much faster at the thought.
There are so many other stories I want to read and I'm sure I'll be reccing a few in the next little while.
Companion
Imriel/Sidonie (from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy), PG-13
Love stories in a Mendacant's tales start with Once Upon a Time and end in Happily Ever After. In life, there's neither. She thinks perhaps the stories have been all used up by their forefathers, and the reality left for her is simpler, and so much more complicated. She's not even sure that she'd call this a love story, this gravity between them.
It's from the point of view of Princess Sidonie, Ysandre's daughter and heir to the throne in Terre D'Ange. In Kushiel's Legacy she and Imriel had UST like mad, and their dance around each other was one of my favourite sub-plots of the book. This story looks at Sidonie's view of their relationship and it's just as lovely and gorgeously written as the canon is.
Some of my favourite lines from it:
She feels Imriel's eyes on her from across the dance floor even as she turns her back on him, and it should make her hold her head that much higher, bearing up under the weight of his expectations or in defiance of them. Cross me at your peril, her body language should be screaming across the room, but those ingrained reactions don't come as easily as they should with him.
He doesn't seem to realize that he's always been the monster under her bed.
-snip-
Oath or no oath, she knows him first, foremost, and always as the son of Melisande, blood of angels and traitors. The marks of that blood are in his eyes: a dark, roiling anger, a tension pulling him into knots, a pulse of electricity buried just below the surface. He's still a monster. He's just a monster who's handed her his leash.
Her heart beats that much faster at the thought.
There are so many other stories I want to read and I'm sure I'll be reccing a few in the next little while.