Title: a long run
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Sinclair, Grammont
Prompt: 89D "through the fire"
Word Count: 3937
Notes: an edge, an edge! (Ahem.) Chronologically last in the Chevalier de Grammont story; we next see Sinclair and Grammont in the novel Witches' Horses. Now I just need to chart a pattern back to the other edge ( Read more... )

Title: hogs.
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Grammont, Sinclair, a variety of others
Prompt: celeloriel: "the low drone of air conditioning"
Word Count: 5869. WTF.
Notes: followed by soon to be finished business.

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( The resonance singer was military issue, modified from its original form. )

Title: Weather forecast: heavy snow
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Grammont, Sinclair
Prompt: 49D "preservatives"
Word Count: 3342
Notes: *squints at index* *scowls* fuck it. After she gets a set of guns, well before they make the area too hot to hold them. (Yes, that's why they're building up a reputation at the beginning ( Read more... )

Title: Know when to walk away
Prompt: 60D "desert"
Word Count: 3539
Notes: coastal_physics REALLY likes giving me headaches--he asked for pre-Grammont Sinclair. =|
Contextual babble on the gentleman in question is available (locked) here. :)
I would have been pleased to clear 500 words with this.

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( He'd known the incident with the witch would eventually get back to command. )

Title: urban stable
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Grammont, Sinclair
Prompt: 29D "urban"
Word Count: 540
Notes: After penny-ante bets, before dealing in the back room.

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( After a week of off-and-on testing with Martin at her reins, having only her human for company was strangely soothing. )

Title: soon to be finished business
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Sinclair, Grammont
Prompt: 72D "mislead"
Word Count: 435
Notes: Sometime after humans are weird.

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( Grammont was uncharacteristically quiet as they limped out )

Title: cooling your heels
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Sinclair, Grammont
Prompt: 99C "plow"
Word Count: 258
Notes: "If you hitch me to a plow, we're going to have words."

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( He's ignoring the way she's idly rolling herself from left to right in full rotations, because he's strapped in and so is everything else. )

Title: midnight maintenance
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Sinclair, Grammont
Prompt: 69D "annoyance"
Word Count: 601

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( 'My belly itches,' she announced in the middle of his night cycle, right by his head. )

Title: tension headache
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Sinclair
Prompt: 70D "67%"
Word Count: 321
Notes: Sinclair being Sinclair, but nobody dies. >.>

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( He muttered a Russian curse under his breath, squinting the eye behind the patch to see if that helped resolve the dull, yellow-green screen into something with enough contrast for him to see with both eyes. )

Title: overload
'Verse/characters: le Chevalier de Grammont; Grammont, Sinclair
Prompt: 91D "drown"
Word Count: 490
Notes: before they meet up with Martin Vedunov the first time; slightly before a name.

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( She'd expected . . something. )