#laela

[laelaxiv]

let love conquer your mind warrior, warrior

[lilyemberxiv]

A blushing bride.

[crocordile]

I stood there thinking of the Namreen hunting me and the rewards they would post. Or maybe they’d found my master’s plaque next to the slave dead under the rockslide and no one was looking for me at all." — Thick as Thieves, chapter 10

This work was a gift fot @kareenvorbarra and @artino-c for the @hamiathesgiftexchange!

After reading @kareenvorbarra's What We Are Allowed, I have been thinking a lot about how Laela must have felt when she heard Kamet was supposed to have died in a rockslide...

The bracelet is the one Kamet buys for her on chapter 1 of Thick as Thieves; the design is based on the description on the fic mentioned above.

[rosedevoir]

the winged girlfriends 🦋 Laela, fae fashion designer and Primrose, mothgirl seamstress

[kareenvorbarra]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: I thought that my master’s return to the imperial court would mean a return to normal for all of us, but it soon became clear that the gods had other plans.

The events of Thick as Thieves from Laela’s point of view.

Characters: Laela, Nahuseresh, Ornon, Original Characters

Pairings: Laela/OFC

Notes: This one...also took forever to write. In what will almost certainly be the penultimate chapter, the final phase of Ornon's plan for Laela and the girls is set in motion, and Laela says many goodbyes.

[artino-c]

kamet finding that he cannot forgive laela for lying to him is such a great inversion of his characterization throughout the book. he obviously values mercy and forgiveness. we see this not just in the apology scene with costis, but in kamet’s final poem about ennikar and the witch of urkull, in his memory of nahuseresh forgiving him for dropping the statue, in his obvious affinity with shesmegah, goddess of mercy. he forgives (or at least admits to still liking) gen, in spite of himself. kamet forgives to a fault, and he doesn’t stop being this way even after he consciously reframes his feelings about nahuseresh: at the end of the book, he even scrutinizes his past behavior towards melheret, of all people, and regrets being rude when melheret didn’t deserve it.

but he can’t forgive laela, a person he cared for so much that gen-the-kitchen-boy could tell that she would risk everything to help him. it makes me think about pheris’ line about how people just don’t behave consistently. i wonder if kamet ever gives up the grudge, or if when they reunite years later he’s still angry with her on some level. my kingdom to have seen this conversation

[laelaxh]

Birthday drawing I did for @yenristar this year!

[thecrenellations]

[id: A drawing in warm brown, green, yellow, and black markers of Laela sitting on a bench in a mysterious kitchen. Kamet has stopped in the doorway to the room, taken by surprise. /end id]

Queen’s Thief Appreciation, Day 14: Free day - ?!

This beautiful scene (story?) is hard to draw when we don’t know if it happened one month after the end of the last book or decades later, but it sure was something to read, and I love the questions (and hints of answers) it gave us.