Turn Left Story One: Baram's Elves

From the Turn Left meme here: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/1005760.html; off of this story: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/306171.html in the Baram's Elves sequence, an AU.

When the first creature broke through - fell through, really; her hedges were hungry and she'd taken lessons from Valentina as well as Valerian - Jaelie speared him to the ground. "Submit," she demanded.

He coughed blood on her shoes, blood that slowly began eating at the leather of her boots. "Bitch," he spat out. "I submit."

Viatrix's blade hesitated.

"You're mine, then." Jaelie twisted the spear. "Say it."

He spat again, the acid in his blood beginning to dissolve her pants. "Yours, fine."

Once he'd fallen, the battle went quickly. The rest either submitted or died, leaving Via, Aly, and Jaelie with four angry returned-God Kept between them.

After the third act of near-disobedient, nearly-deadly sabotage in a week, Baram - who had been grumblingly patient - put his foot down. "No Kept in the house. No other men in the house."

The women took stock. Something was going to have to change. "I'll go." Jaelie stepped forward. "I'll... do something with them, and come back."

Turn Left Story Two: That Damn Cat

From the Turn Left meme here: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/1005760.html; off of this story: http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/260041.html in the Beryl/Damn Cat sequence, an AU.

They had gotten the cats distributed, gotten everything sorted out, all but one angry Siamese cat. The big old tom had clawed, bitten, and, when the vet had mentioned fixing, he drawn blood on four different people.

"Some cats," the vet mentioned, "you just have to put down. You can't leave him wandering, not knowing what he might have..."

She went quiet, because the cat had gone completely still. He wasn't looking at the vet; he was looking at Beryl. His eyes, she noticed, were blue.

"I think..." she said slowly "...as long as you don't try to castrate him, he'll behave just fine now."