Title: Dewdrops
Prompt: Challenge #13, "Escape" & Bonus Ingredient #12, "Childhood" [fanfic_bakeoff], for Team Pie
Fandom: RG Veda
Wordcount: 200
Characters/Pairing: Ashura, mentions of Kujaku and Yasha; Yasha/Ashura implied
Rating: PG-13
Summary: On the first morning after, he raised his face to the sky and felt the wind play like feathers through his hair.
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Title :: Horizons
Prompt :: July 20th, “to give birth to a dancing star” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku, mentions of Ashura
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Set during the very end of the series.
Summary :: When he wakes, there is a light in his eyes.

( a shining thing framed by darkly-circled skin and miasma-swirls of lashes and hair )

Title :: Arrhythmic
Prompt :: April 24th, “but he quit just an hour too soon” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku
Rating :: G
Warnings :: Set at end of series
Wordcount :: 150
Summary :: He supposes that this is simply the way of things, that the pulse will hurry and run and the heartbeat will keep a time all its own; that the heart itself cannot be stopped.

( this pulse that could have been the rhythm that broke the world )

Title :: Constellate
Prompt :: March 24th, “a vein of stars calling out my name” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku
Warnings :: Allusions to end of series spoilers.
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 175
Summary :: It is an intricate thing, an endless network of chains and threads and ties, a wheel of veins that pulsates with blood and possibilities and life.

( He can see the flares, can see the way these destinies intertwine and illuminate one another, both infused and infected with hope, all as clearly as if they reached out and touched his own hands. )

Title :: Hourglass
Prompt :: March 12th, “blind man for a watchdog” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku, mentions of Ashura
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to end of series spoilers.
Wordcount :: 175
Summary :: His skin felt like glass walls, a gilt cage; something from which you can see out but never break free.

( No matter how much his words helped to shape this world, he knew it would never be his own, and he would never walk it. )

Title :: Clockworks
Prompt :: March 7th, “I’ll undo what heredity’s done to you” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku, mentions of Ashura.
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to spoilers.
Wordcount :: 155
Summary :: He does not fear the movements of the stars; instead fears only for them to stop, immutable and immovable and far beyond the reach of his hands.

( There is a relief to it, to watch, to see, to expand your consciousness outward rather than in. )

Title :: Renderings
Prompt :: February 25th, “Tinder ablaze” [31_days]
Characters :: Ashura, Kujaku
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers; set during the very end of the series.
Wordcount :: 110
Summary :: Sometimes good intentions cannot be escaped, in the end.

( he can feel sunlight on his face, burning at his eyes like fire even from behind still-closed lids )

Title :: Dawn
Prompt :: November 19th, “villains in love (ulterior motives at cross-purposes)” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Kujaku; Yasha/Ashura
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to the end of series
Wordcount :: 171
Summary :: You knew that we do not have the luxury of want, that nothing could ever be more selfish than reaching out with stained hands ( Read more... )

Title :: Sacraments
Prompt :: October 28th, “wild at heart” [31_days]
Characters :: Kujaku; mentions of Ashura and Yasha
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers for end of series.
Wordcount :: 200
Summary :: It’s a kind of absolution.

( a penitent before their altar )