Fic: from the rivers of our palms
Word Count: ~33,000
Summary: "Do you ever wonder," Charles murmured, tracing the lines of Iskierka's wings, "why our daemons settled like they did?"
Erik tangled his hands in Aliyah's fur. "No," he said flatly. "Do you?"
The story of daemons, and intercision, and souls, and how a ridiculously soft, trusting, naive telepath named Charles had an eagle daemon, and how an idiotic, stupidly fearless martyr named Erik had a tiger, and how the world feared them for it.
Universe: Post-First Class HDM AU/fusion thing.
A/N: Big thank yous to the folks at xmenbbsupport and chosenfire28 and kiyala, for hosting the challenge! Special thanks to
fae_boleyn and
ssstrychnine for concept help and beta'ing! HUGE thank you to
iheartfluffy for actual beta'ing. <3 you all. The poem, Other Lives and Dimmensions and Finally a Love Poem, is by Bob Hicok.
Art masterpost
here, done by the fantastic
xsilverdreamsx. <3333 So beautiful, omg.
Fic:
prologue: old men |
part one: left and right | p
art two: dust |
part three: the rivers |
epilogue: in each place and forever Or
here, on AO3.
Daemons (in order of appearance):
Sirion |
Mortimer |
Quetz |
Riptide's daemon |
Aliyah |
Arinna |
Hesione |
Einín |
Iskierka |
Cittagaze