Wolf at the Door, a story of #Addergoole Year 9 (Donor Perk)

First Saturday Dance, Year Nine:

Ciara had been talking in a corner niche with a couple of upper-classmen with whom she shared her Chemistry class, but they, being a couple, had moved onto the dance floor when the song went to a slow, romantic tune.

She hadn’t found anyone that she was interested in being romantic with (except the guy she’d just been talking with, but that was clearly not going to work out), but that was no reason to mope in the corner. She turned to go find some of her classmates, and found herself face-to-face with a bicep.

"Dance with me."

The voice attached to the bicep was deep and rough; the bicep itself was covered in a deep red shirt. Looking up, she saw a black tie, with a tiny woven design of swords. Further up revealed a predatory smile; to the top showed shaggy black hair covering sapphire-blue eyes.
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Next: Wolf in the Circle

W-T-F, a story of #Addergoole, for the Giraffe Call

To lilfluff's commissioned prompt - a bit more of Uh-Oh (Lj) and Oh, Shit (LJ).

Raylan is the brother of a character in Addergoole.


The strange woman muttered a few more words under her breath and, like a stage magician's trick, pulled her hands apart, revealing long strips of cloth. "Listen," she murmured quietly. "Hold still and this won't hurt. You have my word on that."

She did someone else with her hands, making Ray's ears pop. "You can talk, as long as you keep it quiet."

"What are you doing?" he asked, not trying all that hard to be quiet.

"I'm wrapping you up so you have a harder time wriggling, what does it look like?" Indeed, she'd grabbed his ankles and started wrapping the cloth around him over his pants, twisting it firmly.
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Fallen, a story of Fae Apoc, for the Giraffe Call

For rix_scaedu's commissioned prompt. Written in the fae apoc 'verse, at the time of the apoc.

The Faerie Apoc Landing page is here (and on LJ)

Content warning: gore and implied implications.











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History of Reiassan notes - part the first

Note: I'm not a scholar of history, at all at all at all. Please be kind when pointing out logical inconsistencies!!

A rough history of the people who would become the Callanthe

Timeline numbers from R - discovery of Reiassan (the continent)

(??? BR)
The proto-Callanthe are goat people. They begin as a small tribe of people in the south of Founding-Continent, a group who discovered the advantages of domesticating the wild goats that lived in the mountains near their hunting grounds.

[horses domesticated around 4000 BCE IRL, goats ~~8000-9000 years ago. So "began" is a long time ago even by this timeline... which corresponds loosely to the time of Christ IRL]

The proto-Callanthe were cultural borrowers, appropriators, and thieves; they collected other tribes not so much by conquering them as by assimilating them. In the mountainous south of the Founding Continent, the tribes all came from a very similar stock to begin with (having probably spread out from a small group that came over the mountains), so, at first, this was essentially re-integration.

Once the proto-Callanthe's territory expanded far enough to run into the unknown people on the West and the proto-Bitrani on the East, the cultural appropriation more often turned to war. The proto-Bitrani, too, had developed cities and seafaring, and some of the proto-Callanthe were intrigued enough to, rather than fight, war, conquer, steal, and assimilate, simple immigrate, acculturate, assimilate, and steal.

Centuries went by this way. Cultures shifted. Wars happened. The population of proto-Callanthe in the proto-Bitrani nations-now-a-single-theocracy had grown to a vocal but generally disenfranchised minority. More importantly for this story, the proto-Bitrani had grown to fill their available land - and the land to the West was still full of warlike proto-Callanthe. They were pushed up against the water - so they started exploring the seas.

(we're almost to R)