Jasfe Unutu, a story bit of Fae Apoc

Inspired by these pictures

Given their options after school, hiking through the wilderness that had once been suburbia had seemed like a good idea to the Goldilocks Crew. They didn't often run into people, and, while there wasn't much food left, a decade after the apocalypse, sometimes there were useful tools.

Well, useful to someone who had Repair and Worked Objects as their best words, which was Nadette; Orsa could use the words and Beirne was okay with them. But Beirne could find clean water or clean it for them, and Orsa could make food happen anywhere. They made a good team, and not just because they were the Three Bears.
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Friendly Reminder

That if you're not reading Shadow Unit (http://www.shadowunit.org/index.html), you really ought to give it a try.

Warning: You may lose several days. Totally worth it.

Then and Now - Audrey and Sage, Dragons Next Door

To kelkyag's prompt to my orig-fic card. This fills the "Then and Now" slot.

Audrey, Sage, and Jin are part of my Dragons Next Door setting; its landing page is here.

Then

"The centaur next door is foaling." Sage came home late at night, his sleeves rolled up to his shoulders. "And the pixies in the mailbox could use some help... oh. Oh, Audrey, blessings from the bottom of the world, what..."

That had not been the reaction I'd been expecting, but I would take it. "It appears..." My voice was a little more shaky than I'd thought. I coughed, sipped my soothing infusion one-handed, and tried again. "It appears it's going around. Kidding season, perhaps?"

"Kidding..." I had never, never in our years, heard Sage's voice do that, that thing where it squeaked at the end. Never seen his composure shaken. "Audrey, did you do this on your own?"
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