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Not going into long explanations here, it's pretty clear as is. I'll just say one thing: signing that could bring me a little closer to all my friends living west of me.

Thank you.

Yep, the Great Friends' Birthday Season has opened for me! Wishing a happy one to roh_wyn today!

And here goes a bad picture of a very good cake that my mother loves to make for birthdays:


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And here goes the fic-ly present:

Under the Shadow of a Sword

Author’s Note: Oddly enough, this story started with the title, and the title was prompted by a completely unrelated situation in a completely unrelated movie. As I re-watched Jodhaa Akbar the other day, a phrase from it caught my attention. It was “Why do my close ones have to fall under ( Read more... )

So it's almost over, and it's been a really, really nice day. Family popped in first thing in the morning, brought flowers and said there was more stuff coming my way. Then I made quiche Lorraine and took it to work with me, and we had a lovely birthday lunch and spent the rest of the day sitting in our office chairs like big lumps, not caring one ( Read more... )

Once again, belatedly wishing a very happy birthday to sealover_astara, and presenting a new ficlet in honor of the day, to be enjoyed by the birthday girl and anyone else who is interested. :)

Special thanks to cressidarambles for the excellent beta job!

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No, dear roh_wyn, I have not forgotten about your Big Day, I was just having some trouble with the present! Here goes a drabble:

Heirs

Enthralled, the boy ran his hand along the elegant curve of the horn, all the way to its silver tip.

“Do you like it, son?”

The child started, alarmed, but instantly relaxed under the gaze of his father’s smiling eyes.

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And finally, I'm ready to post a vacation report. I know it's taken me long, and I know reading vacation reports is somewhat like looking at 874 pictures of someone's "cute and precious" grandchildren, but I am still going to write one, so please bear with me. ;)

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My grandfather -- my mother's father -- passed away last Friday. He died peacefully in his sleep, having spent only three days in bed, having almost reached his eigthy-fifth birthday; as my dad said afterwards, "you have to do something really worthy to deserve a death like that." I must say I never really thought my grandfather a remarkable person ( Read more... )

I wrote this story last year for sealover_astara's birthday, but I'm only posting it now, because a certain someone had yet to get to the Big Reveal and really didn't need any spoilers! ;)

So: Revan, Malak, the Leviathan. Oh, and spoilers, too!

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