Title: bright sharp shattering
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Helena, others
Prompt: 89A "strangers"
Word Count: 1317
Rating: bloodier than the rest, so far.
Notes: 3/3, follows like a brick from above. Longer than I expected it to be. May be followed by a 4th bit.

( He hadn't expected the world to end before dawn. Midnight, maybe. Dawn. )

Title: like a brick from above
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Helena, Sascha, Petrovich, Taarstad
Prompt: 66A "drifting"
Word Count: 396
Notes: 2/3, follows heartbeats in the dark

( All in the waitin' )

Title: heartbeats in the dark
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Petrovich, Helena, Sascha
Prompt: 39A "prelude"
Word Count: 511
Notes: 1/3. Previous to nearly everything else in this particular story. This does not follow yesterday's bit.

( There was a faith of sorts in paranoia )

Title: no horses in Eljúdnir
’Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Taarstad, Helena
Prompt: 77B "religion"
Word Count: 373
Notes: between whoops and heh.

( Her name was odd. )

Title: offers
’Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Sascha, several others
Prompt: 84B "stars"; "sparks--engine room? dark and sparks and grease and metal", klgaffney
Word Count: 1174 1356
Notes: Before they snagged a varangian rider; this is where Sascha joins the crew ( Read more... )

Title: three now four
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Sascha, Petrovich
Prompt: 51B "defeat"
Word Count: 225
Notes: He's not gonna laugh at the expression on the Captain's face. Might get him kissed by the black, or just a black eye.
Prompted by a poll response.

( They're runnin' four )

Title: oh, he dances.
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Petrovich, Helena
Prompt: 32B "odd"
Word Count: 223
Notes: "And . . that doesn't strike you as the tiniest bit odd?"

( He's pacing. )

Title: gleep?
'Verse/characters: Swallow' Tail; Taarsad
Prompt: 35A "a place where no one goes"
Word Count: 116
Notes: prompted by a poll response. After you gonna dance, or you just gonna watch?

( They're hiding, out in the black )

Title: you gonna dance, or you just gonna look?
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Sascha
Prompt: 73B "eyes"
Word Count: 146
Notes: Thunderer, she doesn't pounce soon I'm going t'have to pick a damned fight just to keep his eye off 'em.
Prompted by a poll response.

( Kid knows what dance to get her attention with, that's sure. )

Title: heh.
'Verse/characters: Swallow's Tail; Helena
Prompt: 50C "dance"
Word Count: 245
Notes: the other side of 'whoops' ain't blind.

( She'd have expected him to move the way he talks )