May 24, 2023
always darkest before the dawn
There were monsters in the Blue Mountains, everyone knew that. Foul beasts that made no distinction between animal or human, that would slay anyone who ventured too far into the woods and devour them whole. Everyone also knew that every few years someone from the village would disappear- like Elsa, who eloped with a travelling merchant, or Johann, who went hunting in the foothills and never returned, or even Markus, who went off to Ard Carraigh because the village was too small for him. It wasn’t until now that Jaskier considered that all those tales might have been lies.
New fic, find it on my ao3 https://archiveofourown.org/users/HawksEyes/pseuds/HawksEyes
