Title: Mothers and Daughters (first part)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG, no warnings
Characters/Pairing: Iselle, Ista, Liss (Iselle/Bergon, Ista/Illvin, probably Liss/Foix)
Prompt: #24, image of a fortress by the sea
Format & Word Count: WIP | 696 words so far
Summary: After the conquest of Visping, Iselle sees her mother for the first time in ( Read more... )

Title: Lunge (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 7 of 7)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG-13, violence
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal, Cazaril
Prompt: #18, “No one's laughing at God / When they're saying their goodbyes” - Regina Spektor, Laughing With
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: Dy Jironal makes sure that he will never find Cazaril ( Read more... )

Title: Invitation (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 6 of 7)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG-13, threats of violence
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal
Prompt: #22, festival
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: On the morning of the Daughter's Day, dy Jironal is ready for his moment of triumph, but he is interrupted. Again.
Author's Notes: ( Read more... )

Title: Sinking Feeling
Author: mrstater
Rating & Warnings: rated G
Characters/ Pairing: Betriz
Prompt: #20, picture of a hillside fortress
Format & Word Count: drabble.5, 150 words
Summary: The Zangre proves not to be all Betriz expected.

( Sinking Feeling )

Title: Pressure (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 4 of 7)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal, Cazaril
Prompt: #14, “And with each passing day / The stories we say / Draw us tighter into our addiction / Confirm our conviction / That some kind of miracle / Passed on our hands...” - Vienna Teng, Eric's Song
Format & Word ( Read more... )

Title: Feint (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 4 of 6 5 of 7)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal, a nameless henchman
Prompt: #10, learning
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: Dy Jironal discovers that he has been outmaneuvered. For the moment.

( 'What do you mean, he’s not in Valenda?' )

Title: Redoublement (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 3 of 6 7)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal, Dondo dy Jironal
Prompt: #8, growth
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: Dy Cazaril hadn't behaved as expected, but surely it was only a minor setback.

( 'He refused my gift outright!' )

Title: Engagement (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 2)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal
Prompt: #5 (image of a banquet with goblet and grapes)
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: Dy Jironal considers his opponent.
Author’s Notes: Sorry if you thought the title meant something else, heh. Part 2 of a series ( Read more... )

Title: En Garde (Thrust, Parry, Cut, part 1)
Author: shimotsuki
Rating & Warnings: PG, distasteful scheming
Characters/Pairing: Martou dy Jironal, Dondo dy Jironal
Prompt: #2, new beginnings
Format & Word Count: Drabble | 100 words
Summary: Martou dy Jironal finds himself poised for a bout he did not expect to have to fight.
Author’s Notes: This is not the ( Read more... )