A New World (continuation): Potions

First: A New World
Previous: Kael-Room

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Joaon. The letter shapes, the strange way he ended certain letters - she could not read this, not yet, but she could recognize his handwriting, even in a script that had changed immensely.

She needed.  Well, she needed potions.  She needed a whole bunch of potions.

It was time to see what this pretend-workroom had been stocked with.

And what this pretend-cauldron was going to do.

She started going through the cupboards, one through one.  All of them were labelled in this strange script - not in her handwriting, or in Joaon’s - but they were also labelled right after that in her own language.  There she was, tongue-of-the-maiden and kisses-on-eyebrows, her favorite flowers.  They had grown in the rooftop gardens, once upon a time.  But if she was “forbidden” to go up there, it was unlikely anyone had maintained them.  She would have to find all the right ingredients again.

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Fanfiction: Diagnostic Machine

Crossover: Dr. House, Faerie Apocalypse. I cannot write Dr. Cuddy, so the third person here is a vague unnamed person.

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“Dr. House, I'd like to introduce our new diagnostic machine, Melody Redfern. Melody, Dr. House.”

“Oh, come on,”House scoffed. “You keep trying to replace me, and you know it's futile.. Face it,”he sneered, you're stuck with me. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go stick a needle in a teenager's spine.”

“No, House, you misunderstood. Melody isn't here to replace you. She's here to replace the ridiculously overpriced tests you keep ordering.”

"What's she going to do?”. His gaze raked over the young woman, taking in her floral skirt and silver bracelets. “Read their tea leaves?”

“Now that you mention it…” Melody's voice matched her appearance: sweet and thin.

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Finish It In November

Okay!

So this is everything on the "Finish it" list from way back in 2016. (http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/1197753.html)
It's also newer stuff that's tapered off and stuff from "More Please."
Because what I'm going to do for NanoWrimo is write 1667 words of finishing something for 30 days. (or, more likely, 2273 words of finishing something for 22 weekdays).

This is way early, yes. There may be a poll-off in October. But I wanted to give people time to decide.

Also: Links here: http://www.lynthornealder.com/2017/08/29/links-for-the-poll/

Poll #18745 Finish It November (and before) Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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What Should I finish First?

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Arisse and Chress
0 (0.0%)

Kidnappers in “Dragons Next Door.”
3 (33.3%)

Bjorn
0 (0.0%)

Clarisse
0 (0.0%)

Willard
3 (33.3%)

Shahin and Emrys
2 (22.2%)

Tilden
0 (0.0%)

Mikary
2 (22.2%)

Abrelle
0 (0.0%)

Packing
0 (0.0%)

Cúmhaí
0 (0.0%)

Space Accountant Accidental Marriage
5 (55.6%)

The Cat’s Paw. (AF)
3 (33.3%)

B is for Beryl and her Boys.(AF)
3 (33.3%)

Boy Trouble(AF)
4 (44.4%)

Charming(AF)
2 (22.2%)

The Powers that Be(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Midnight, Summer Solstice.(AF)
2 (22.2%)

How The Family Does things(AF)
2 (22.2%)

Family and Cocoa and/or Warm Visions and Warm Family(AF)
3 (33.3%)

Heroes (AF)
4 (44.4%)

An Argument of Magic(AF)
2 (22.2%)

In the Attic(AF)
3 (33.3%)

Aetheric Cleansing.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Trash and Treasures.(AF)
0 (0.0%)

Bless the Cat.(AF)
5 (55.6%)

Legacy Cat.(AF)
5 (55.6%)

You’d Better Watch Out.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Wild Card.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Rumors about the Family.(AF)
2 (22.2%)

The Strength.(AF)
3 (33.3%)

I Am No Aunt.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Fated(AF)
3 (33.3%)

King(maker) Cake, etc.(AF)
5 (55.6%)

The Hazards of Magic.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Exhaustion(AF)
1 (11.1%)

Three Glass Beads, Peacock Blue.(AF)
1 (11.1%)

A Locked Chest is Locked for a Reason.(AF)
2 (22.2%)

Fifty Years. (Rsn)
0 (0.0%)

Rin and Girey, and more Rin, with research. (Rsn)
2 (22.2%)

Rin’s parents, and Rin’s father, and … (Rsn)
2 (22.2%)

Discovery (caves) (Rsn)
2 (22.2%)

Discovery (at sea) (Rsn)
3 (33.3%)

Linguistic Tricks. (TUn)
3 (33.3%)

Æ is for Ash. (TUn)
1 (11.1%)

Rodegard – and Esedora (TUn)
2 (22.2%)

Carrying the Spirit. (TUn)
0 (0.0%)

Skill and Dreams. (TUn)
0 (0.0%)

The Enemy’s City. (TUn)
0 (0.0%)

Road Map To.... (TUn)
0 (0.0%)

The Portal Closed.
2 (22.2%)

Take Me (UF)
1 (11.1%)

Cleaning House/Observing (UF)
1 (11.1%)

Change (Unicorn/Factory)
0 (0.0%)

Far Weston. (UF)
0 (0.0%)

Where Do Unicorns Come From?. (UF)
0 (0.0%)

The Silver Road. (UF)
0 (0.0%)

The Unicorn Bride Rebellion. (UF)
2 (22.2%)

Duty (UF)
0 (0.0%)

Unicorn Strokes. (UF)
0 (0.0%)

Unicorn-Chaste. (UF)
0 (0.0%)

Over the Wall (DnD)
4 (44.4%)

Jin/Hostages (DnD)
3 (33.3%)

Bianna (DnD)
3 (33.3%)

Stranded in Winter (Stn)
3 (33.3%)

Matchmaker, Matchmaker (Adg)
1 (11.1%)

About That… (Adg)
0 (0.0%)

Bracken, her first year (Adg)
0 (0.0%)

Deaths in the Faerie apocalypse, a side note (Adg)
2 (22.2%)

They Were Over - (Adg)
1 (11.1%)

Together/Again (Adg)
0 (0.0%)

Then and Now (AF)
2 (22.2%)

Romance was never this convenient to handle
2 (22.2%)

Falling From Grace
1 (11.1%)

Someone Let Me Marathon Criminal Minds
1 (11.1%)

Own the Fate (AF)
1 (11.1%)

Hooked In (AF)
3 (33.3%)

Love Meme: Kai and Rozen, Autumn and Ink
4 (44.4%)

A Storm Brewing Over the Skies of … Setting
1 (11.1%)

The Monarch
1 (11.1%)

Where It All Began - the Zeroth Cohort in Addergoole
3 (33.3%)

The Princess and the Tallest Tower
0 (0.0%)

Return to Sender/Old Debts and Old Favors***
3 (33.3%)

Catbois in Cages
4 (44.4%)

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Funerary Rites Twenty: Family

First: Funeral
Previous: Naked, Dead People, Etc.

He looked her over for a minute, almost as if he hadn’t seen her before.  Then he closed his eyes and went still.  “Daughter of Claudia, the lawyer said.  In the fae style.  But that’s not what you said, is it?  Daughter of Aonghus, himself the son of Sláine.  I was distracted at the time.  That’s the only excuse.  That’s an interesting lineage you have there.”  He opened his eyes again.  “Claudia, Named simply The Free, who was that and more, wild and calm, and absolutely deadly when crossed.  Aonghus. The White Wolf.  Oh, did he cause trouble in the winter.”  His lips curled.  “Yes.  I know about your family.  I knew Sláine, too, Life-or-Death.  You come by your violent tendencies honestly, Senga Monmartin.  And what do they call you?”

Senga had not heard her family’s Names spoken in decades, and she hadn’t heard them spoken like that - with cautious reverence - since they’d died.  “They call me Monmartin,” she answered dryly, and waved her hand before he could complain that that hadn’t been what he meant.  “It’s not actually my last name.  They call me War,  but the full name is Swallow on the Mountain of War.”

“Mon-martin,” he murmured.  “That’s quite a mouthful of a Name.”

“My Mentor had - has - a leaning towards the poetic and a flair for the dramatic.  It was supposed to be Swallow of  War, but she couldn’t resist the chance to get the Mon part in there.”

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Side Quest - a Camp NanoWrimo Story - Seventeen: Crossing, Cross

Seventeen: Crossing, Cross

“You’re old enough to be out on your own, yes?”

“Of course I am.”  She wrinkled her nose at him.  “I am here, aren’t I?  Everyone may keep calling me child, but I have an apprenticeship, I am carrying the weight of my family to the capital, and I - yes.  I’m old enough.”  She threw up her hands.  “Why.  What did I miss?”

“Oh, no, I don’t think this boy whore was putting you on or anything of the sort,” he reassured her, although the thought had not been on her mind until he said it.  “No, it’s just that a fox - well, that sort of fox - it’s,” he coughed.  “Well, you’re on a trip, it’s the right sort of time to make that, I suppose.  They’re…” he looked away, blushing.  “Usually made from bottle-brush and red-tail, which you can find on the side of the road a lot. And then you use some scented oil and carve a piece of the bottle-brush, and it’s, ah.  Used in sex.”

“Oh!  One of those!” She grinned at the blush on the Diamond Raven’s cheeks.  “I’ve made those before, although not with the red-tail.  That must tickle…”

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