Title: midnight conversations
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Eduard De'Ath, Julian De'Ath
Prompt: klgaffney: "the deaths, a carved bone box (that might not contain what's expected.)"
Word Count: 1192
Notes: After feint (only not), well before presents.

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( 'I am eventually going to have to go home,' Julian said one night, just halfway through her fourth cup of coffee. 'You can't just keep manufacturing wars to hold my attention.' )

Title: gossip
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Eduard De'Ath, the Morrigan
Prompt: 89B "smile"
Word Count: 741
Notes: About halfway between unlikely reinforcements and one two three . .; before the loss.

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( 'Have you heard?' was all the greeting he had as the Morrigan dropped herself unceremoniously onto the bench across from him. )

Title: hunger
'Verse/characters: Deaths; the Morrigan, Eduard De'Ath
Prompt: 05D "seeking solace"
Word Count: 708
Notes: Campaign-era. After wake up; Eduard's back on his feet, but only just barely. Also references gambit, response.

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( 'Wait,' she'd been told, but it wasn't enough to hold her easily. )

Title: settling in
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'ath, the Morrigan
Prompt: 07D "heaven"
Word Count: 1137
Notes: Campaign-era. Between blood in the water and recuperation. (Yes, I know miscalculation's in there, too; trying to work out timing.)

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( The local De'Ath would be none too pleased at the use his house was serving in his absence. )

Title: Troy
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Eduard De'Ath, Azrael, the Morrigan, Julian De'Ath
Prompt: billradish: "Devil Death, crystalline"
Word Count: 982
Notes: expanded from the spark "Wait, you actually traveled in that?"; follows heat of the moment, is still before never simple. They're still somewhere near Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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( He hadn't paid much mind to the fact that his niece had gone wandering sometime the previous afternoon )

Title: recuperation
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Eduard De'Ath, Julian De'Ath, the Morrigan
Prompt: 88D "pain"
Word Count: 553
Notes: sometime between aftermath and escalation.

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( Julian was limping when they all got back to the first and second floor suite they were using that week. )

Title: quest? Nah.
'Verse/characters: Deaths; brothers De'Ath
Prompt: 95A "ever after"
Word Count: 168
Notes: before the loss.

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( _Drinks are on me if you can find me_, the note begins. )

Title: fall evenings
'Verse/characters: Deaths; the brothers De'Ath
Prompt: goshawk: "the smell of rain"
Word Count: 304
Notes: post campaign.

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( Edmund's always out in the weather, these days. )

Title: good morrow
'Verse/characters: Deaths; the Morrigan, Julian De'Ath, Eduard De'ath
Prompt: 37B "quote"
Word Count: 517 605
Notes: follows breakfast and hellos

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( She didn't see either of them again until late the following morning )

Title: shadow-boxing
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Eduard De'Ath
Prompt: 27B "fun"
Word Count: 1030
Notes: obliquely references play. Sometime after sharpening things, before he started traveling.

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( The Morrigan was out of town for the next few days )