Title: Art of collecting
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
ficlets100  Prompt: 078 - birthday
tammy_drabbles  prompt: 106 - art of collecting
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Although her beloved horse had been one of the easier things to leave behind in the Copper Isles, it didn’t mean that Sarai didn’t miss her fiery stallion. At their first ( Read more... )

Title: Switching Sides
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
ficlets100 Prompt:  065 - alone
tammy_drabbles  prompt: 110- switching sides
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

What if she just stopped resisting? What if she stopped fighting? It was a horrible thought, but what if Sarai really did give in and marry Dunevon. She’d be surprised if he lived very ( Read more... )

Title: Poetry
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
ficlets100  Prompt: 096 - writers' choice (poetry)
tammy_drabbles  prompt - 109 poetry
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Oh how your eyes doth shine. Like the luminous moon and stars up above…

Sarai’s eyes were definitely not shinning. Not like the moon, stars or sun; though they were definitely crinkled ( Read more... )

Title: Leaving
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 073- past
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

For a long time after boarding the boat Sarai stood at the stern and simply stared at the docks. As the ship set sail she continued to watch the harbor until the Copper Isles became a faint line painted onto the horizon.

Suddenly ( Read more... )

Title: Leaving the Eastern Lands
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 048 - universe
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

“I want to travel,” Sarai decided.

Zaimid considered this. “Where to?”

“Everywhere. Maren, Sarain, Tusaine, the roof of the world, even! We could go on horses, maybe even leave the Eastern Lands, and see the ( Read more... )

Title: Rabbit Soup
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 043 - bunnies
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

“My father used to hunt rabbits,” Sarai told Zaimid. “He’d bring them home, proud as a cat and get cook to roast them up. We’d have a feast.”

A few weeks later Zaimid organized for them to have a meal of rabbit - hard as it ( Read more... )

Title: The Real World.
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 013 - hero
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

“This is the real world, Dove! It’s not a story of Aly’s. There’s no copper haired sword wielding legends. No one to talk to animals,” Sarai fumed. “And furthermore there is no man that’s going to save me. Not one! Do you ( Read more... )

Title: Cooking Analogy
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 052 - cooking
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Sarai was slightly amused the first time Zaimid politely refused to eat her cooking. Now that it had occurred for the second time she was just irritated.

“I think it tastes quite nice,” Sarai announced after she had ( Read more... )

Title: Swordsmanship
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 087 - weapon
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Long after she had settled down in Carthak, sword fighting was something Sarai never gave up. Once a day she’d take her big (and awfully heavy) sword and practice in the courtyard.

Sometimes Zaimid would watch Sarai as ( Read more... )

Title: Wounded Healer
Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Character/s: Sarai Balitang, Zaimid Hetnim
Prompt: 089 - Blood 
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Sarai could not believe the amount of blood that Zaimid was loosing. She had thought it was only a small cut to the head that he had received, but with all this blood, Sarai wasn’t so sure. It looked serious and her ( Read more... )