An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 7/10 Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hanne Brum/ Leoni Hilli / Adrik Zhabin, Leoni Hilli / Hanne Brum, Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik, Leoni Hilli/Adrik Zhabin, Hanne Brum/Nina Zenik Characters: Hanne Brum, Jarl Brum, Leoni Hilli, Jesper Fahey (Mentioned), Aditi Hilli (mentioned), Adrik Zhabin, Nadia Zhabin, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar Summary:
Disclaimer: This fic was started and outlined before the release of ROW.
Hanne has lost a lot. She's lost her connection to her culture thanks to her father - a ruthless and pious man. She's lost her mother. The Great Depression has ravaged her communities and life, and she finds solace in the arms of her half brother's wife - Nina Zenik.
Leoni Hilli is a self-sufficient daughter of ranchers in Texas. Through luck of the draw she is doing well enough, but the threat of the white ranchers around her are always on the horizon. But she soldiers on, wiping the dust from her eyes and digging her heels into the dirt.
Adrik Zhabin is a Russo-Jewish immigrant, who is seeking something new out West after a lifetime of hardships and persecution.
Their lives became entangled with each other when they all end up at the Hilli ranch. As their lives become upended by personal battles and the world at large, they are able to find comfort with each other.
Warnings for a lot of heavy identity-related themes around queerness, indigenous identity, and blackness in frontierism / the wild west.













