The Terror but Orpheus/Eurydice AU
FanficTitle: Lovers’ Dirge as Played upon the Lyre (Teen, 6k words)
Pairings: George Hodgson/Edward Little, Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames, mentioned Peglar/Bridgens and implied Gibson/Hickey
(Hodgson as Orpheus, Little as Eurydice, Crozier as Hades, Fitzjames as Persephone, Jopson as Charon, Erebus Lieuts as the Fates, Neptune as Cerberus, and a bunch of other charas a human townsfolk, Romance, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Unhappy Ending)
A map leading to the Underworld.
George gasps, lays the page down on the table delicately, for fear it might dissolve at any moment. He pulls an atlas from his shelf, matches the maps within, takes a magnifying glass to it. Everything looks sound. The only difference is one thick dark circle, but even as George stares at it the blackness seems to shift, bits of color surfacing than diving back within again. The spot is on flat paper yet seems to have depth: limitless, promising, horrible in its unknowability.
Terror and Erebus, it is labeled in Bridgens’ recognizable steady hand.
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