Chapters: 8/? Fandom: The Wayhaven Chronicles - Mishka Jenkins Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Female Detective/Natalie "Nat" Sewell, Detective/Ava du Mortain, Mason (The Wayhaven Chronicles)/Original Character(s) Characters: Detective (The Wayhaven Chronicles), Original Characters, Natalie "Nat" Sewell, Ava du Mortain, Felix Hauville, Mason (The Wayhaven Chronicles), Rebecca (The Wayhaven Chronicles), Sanja (The Wayhaven Chronicles), Falk (The Wayhaven Chronicles), Female Detective (The Wayhaven Chronicles) Additional Tags: Book 2 Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, AU specifics can be found in the series description Series: Part 17 of scum (wayhaven dockworker)
[Series Masterpost]
What a softness that was said with. Salt rolls the sound of those words over in her mind, and wonders what sort of history could erode at the crisp sharpness of every other word Ava du Mortain speaks. And in the quiet of that question, she hears it. The creaking. The snapping. The groan. It's a heartbeat after du Mortain stops, and Salt nearly loses the sounds that follow as she finds an arm in front of her, the castle wall rebuilt instantly around instead of between - Crk-crrr- crrkk- Salt's heart leaps to her throat, and with it moves every bird in the forest, an explosion of shrieking calls and beating wings. The trees roar, shuddering and bowing under the force of-
