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Post by max on Feb 10, 2010 18:21:20 GMT 10
Voyage G 245 Yukimi 1/G Yuki on the way to Tortall.
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Yuki has several reasons for coming to Tortall. Not one of which she is prepared to tell a soul.
Shinko is travelling because she wishes to escape. Escape at any means necessary the stranglehold her Uncle, His Imperial Majesty, has upon her by dint of her being his niece. Escape the millstone of duty hanging around her neck, by performing this greatest of sacrifices, travelling to the uncivilised east to marry a barbarian prince.
Haname, out of honour. She of the family who governed most of Yaman, in the time before the imperial family. With her wide cheekbones and long lashed grey eyes, her startling height and slender body, she is the most innocuous of Shinkokami’s guards. And the most deadly.
Yuki herself is here for love. Not for country or the girl she serves and has been a friend of since they were small. Not for her parents or her family’s honour. Not out of obligation or fear or loyalty to the emperor.
When she closes her eyes and turns to windward, she can almost feel a barbarian girl’s breath, cool on her neck. See those eyes, the colour of the ocean when it rains. The rise and fall of the ship in the swells matching the anticipation that flips through her stomach.
And into that windward current, carrying her ever closer, she whispers a name she has never, once, forgotten.
Keladry
To be snatched out of her lungs and eaten by the briny air.
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Post by ubiquitous on Feb 10, 2010 23:21:08 GMT 10
Lovely fic!
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 10, 2010 23:49:50 GMT 10
Gorgeous.
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Rowena
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back to school... >.<
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Post by Rowena on Feb 11, 2010 2:45:32 GMT 10
So amazing, great job!
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Post by max on Feb 11, 2010 7:33:19 GMT 10
Thanks all
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Post by greenie on Feb 11, 2010 7:58:20 GMT 10
Beautifully written!
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Post by Verasque on Feb 11, 2010 9:06:26 GMT 10
I love the poetic feel to the entire piece; so gorgeous
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Post by Lisa on Feb 11, 2010 10:46:19 GMT 10
This is simply gorgeous!
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Post by max on Feb 11, 2010 12:27:22 GMT 10
Cheers
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Post by queenscovegirl on Mar 10, 2010 20:22:10 GMT 10
This was perhaps one of the best Yuki fics ever. Its really well done and I love the imagery at the end.
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