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The Shepherdess

Dana meets the new nurse, Emma Nolan. Two months later, a drunken bull-riding mishap brings them closer together.

Some hurt/comfort yuri with a side of grumpy/sunshine.

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I will not write your eulogy

I took a shop class once,

where we worked wood,

and I fell in love with pine.

It seemed such a delicate thing,

lightly perfumed with the ghost of sap,

delicate enough that I thought I might be able to bend it with my hands.

I thought it beautiful,

the subtle variegations

like silk, like hair, like something still alive.

You have taken this from me,

though I know you did not mean to,

for you could not try to steal what you did not know.

I once told you about caraway seeds,

and how the Victorians used them in funeral biscuits,

as I knead the dough, I wonder if you knew then.

I wonder if you know how much I think of you,

how I cannot go where I once went without being robbed of breath,

how I have molted into something sadder, less splendid, than I was before.

But of course you don't know. 

You have left me behind,

somewhere I cannot follow, for I am no Orpheus, to drag you back to me with honeyed words.

This is all I will ever be able to do, immortalize you with my pen, pray at the pine-slab altar of our archived messages. It will never be enough.

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I Will Follow You into the Dark

Kallian Tabris suffers a fatal injury fighting darkspawn. Alistair must pick up the pieces.

Or, an Easter-inspired take on death and resurrection.

Just a 'fun', angsty 3-parter about death, grief, and resurrection. Might make you cry. For fun.

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