~Part Two~

The evening had passed colorfully enough. For his part, Jack had spent the better half of the hour before dinner fetching water for his bloody sister. And so he’d found himself making several trips to the well. He’d grumbled a good deal, but the lime juice that Sara had made with said water rendered the labor nearly worthwhile, the ( Read more... )

A/N: Well, here it is - the final bit of holiday fic for ya’ll. My apologies for the tardiness of this post, but my dear husband had accidentally deleted the third chapter right as I was editing it, so I had to rewrite it from scratch. This chapter has grown so large that it is posted in two parts, linked below.

To recap a few essentials of plot:

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A/N: Ok ya’ll, here’s part two as promised, with three well in the works. Once again, this baby is a bit rough around the edges, but hey, at least it’s here, right? This story is a vignette that can stand alone if need be, but I’ve envisioned it as a story existing a little ways into the future of my “Kingdoms of the Swan” (KotS) universe - so, ( Read more... )

A/N: Ok guys, first off, this little beast is not beta’d, as it’s Christmas Eve and God knows no one would want to spent their evening editing. Please forgive typos and a certain lack of my usual syntactic flare, as I plunked this baby out, literally, in four hours at the office. It is also important to note that this story exists within my post- ( Read more... )