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aldersprigTo clare_dragonfly's prompt.
After Signal Fire, which is after Safe House (LJ), which is right after
Company LJ) )
They were not running a safe house.
Baram was firm on that. They were running, if anything, a refuge for children, a place for those that had no parents anymore or couldn't find them.
They were not running a safe house for every wandering fae. He protected his vassals, but that was what he did. Those people, his people. Not everyone who came by.
And many came by. The skinny one and the small one hadn't stayed. For them, Baram had offered, but their memories of the monster he had been - had been known as - were too strong, and they could not bear to stay.
The others came in many flavors. They all saw the tall walls, the thorny plants, the happy children playing. Some wanted to own; some just wanted to shelter. Some wanted both; some just wanted the warmth of companionship.
"We are not running a safe house." Baram looked at the latest of them. She was short, her skin tan and her hair black, and she was looking up at him with no fear at all. No fear of him; when she glanced over her shoulder, she was clearly worried.
"Boss." Viatrix stepped up to one side of him. "Boss, there's something on the horizon." She looked at the girl on the step. "You're a Thirteenth, aren't you?"
"And you're The Life." The girl bowed; now she looked scared of what was in front of her. That was a new one. "I didn't know you were here."
Via grinned. Baram liked that grin; it was her hunting smile. "Maybe you'd better let her in, boss?"
clare_dragonfly's prompt.After Signal Fire, which is after Safe House (LJ), which is right after
Company LJ) )
They were not running a safe house.
Baram was firm on that. They were running, if anything, a refuge for children, a place for those that had no parents anymore or couldn't find them.
They were not running a safe house for every wandering fae. He protected his vassals, but that was what he did. Those people, his people. Not everyone who came by.
And many came by. The skinny one and the small one hadn't stayed. For them, Baram had offered, but their memories of the monster he had been - had been known as - were too strong, and they could not bear to stay.
The others came in many flavors. They all saw the tall walls, the thorny plants, the happy children playing. Some wanted to own; some just wanted to shelter. Some wanted both; some just wanted the warmth of companionship.
"We are not running a safe house." Baram looked at the latest of them. She was short, her skin tan and her hair black, and she was looking up at him with no fear at all. No fear of him; when she glanced over her shoulder, she was clearly worried.
"Boss." Viatrix stepped up to one side of him. "Boss, there's something on the horizon." She looked at the girl on the step. "You're a Thirteenth, aren't you?"
"And you're The Life." The girl bowed; now she looked scared of what was in front of her. That was a new one. "I didn't know you were here."
Via grinned. Baram liked that grin; it was her hunting smile. "Maybe you'd better let her in, boss?"
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Date: 2013-06-05 10:06 pm (UTC)After Signal Fire, after Company LJ) and Safe House (LJ)
is their chrono sequence left-to-right or right-to-left?
I'm hoping that if you tell me, I'll remember it more easily than if I work it out in this case... having done so a number of times already and STILL not remembering. I think it's linked to my geographical inability, aka bump of misdirection.
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Date: 2013-06-06 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 01:46 am (UTC)That's how I keep trying to read it, but I'm used to reading etymologies in dictionaries & such, like this from the OED (which I have heavily edited down): rajah < Hindi rāyā < Sanskrit rājan (nominative rājā) king, prince, sovereign < rāj- to rule < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin rēg- , rēx king (see rex n.1).
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Date: 2013-06-06 12:14 pm (UTC)It tends to be because I say "this comes after Story3, which came after Story2, which came after Story1..."
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Date: 2013-06-07 02:06 am (UTC)And it keeps the order consistent:
THIS STORY After #3, after #2, after #1
You might consider using an arrow:
THIS STORY After #3 <-- #2 <-- #1
Or even, if you feel so inclined,
THIS STORY After #3 ← #2 ← #1
( I like symbols and special characters* and other alphabets (of course!) and Unicode, so I keep a text document handy with a few dozen or more of my favorites, so I can just open it, copy, and paste. For some of them I've memorized the Unicode, so I can just type (in HTML input) ← and it comes out as ← And many of them have mnemonic entity names, so for the same left arrow I can just enter ← )
* What do you mean, "That's obvious"?
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Date: 2013-06-07 12:23 pm (UTC)Arrows, we've got arrows, we've got lots and lots of arrows
Date: 2013-06-07 05:15 pm (UTC)• Arrows
• Supplemental Arrows-A
• Supplemental Arrows-B
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
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Date: 2013-06-28 12:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-06 01:28 pm (UTC)